Spying From Space: How the CIA Recovered Film From Secret Satellites

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Humans have launched hundreds of spy satellites, but the first ones required a little more creativity.

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The First Spy Satellites Had to Drop Gigantic Buckets of Film Back to Earth
"For better or worse, we've grown accustomed to idea that we're under constant photo surveillance: there's a CCTV camera on every corner, a webcam on every computer, and a network of satellites capable of taking high resolution photos of the entire earth every day. But just 50 years ago, figuring out how to make high altitude photo surveillance happen was no small order."

US Intel Chief Warns That Russia and China May Target American Satellites
"China and Russia are advancing directed-energy (laser) weapons technologies for the purpose of fielding ASAT systems 'that could blind or damage sensitive space-based optical sensors,' Coats said. 'Russia is developing an airborne laser weapon for use against US satellites.'"

These Satellites Help Scientists Monitor Antarctica's Collapsing Ice Shelf
"The iceberg-to-be is hanging on by a thread, with just eight miles of solid ice standing in the way of a rift that's spent years carving through the ice. Scientists can track the growth of the crack with precision during the summer season by flying over it, but even during the dead of Antarctic night, they're still able to see it clearly thanks to eyes in the sky."

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This episode of Seeker was written and hosted by Trace Dominguez
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American x-ray satellites are watching me while I poop.

BanditRants
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Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean they *aren't* watching you.

LikeTheBuffalo
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why would you ever publish something on facebook exclusively?

ehwored
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In the 1950's and 60's the U2 was state of the art. Now it's so common that Apple gives them away with the iPhone.

Master_Therion
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Why does Boeing sponsor you? What, do they like want us to buy their planes or something?

Abdulaziz
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Can take pictures of black holes in our galaxy but can't find a triple 7 Boeing plane carrying passengers that mysteriously vanishes lol

onlythemessenger
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The guy in the vid is the only reason i watch seeker.

Qgleuo
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How about doing a video that hypothesizes about the sort of cameras on spy satellites today? eg Can they see my pimples better than I can in my bathroom mirror?

rgraph
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What satellites today see are not just visible spectrum images but a wide spectrum. They can tell whether that guard has a cell phone on him and even what his cell phone number is all from space. Pretty fucking cool.

cagedtigersteve
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It would be nice to not use facebook cause it sucks

becca
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i love these aero series, wish y'all did this back when i first decided to switch to engineering

cp
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But can the CIA see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

GKSTR
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Private eyes 👏👏 they watchin' you 👏👏 they see your eeeevreeeyyy moooove (baby!)

TraceDominguez
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There is a 2, 5 hour english podcast about this spy satellites topic which one expert, who worked at such a program. It's episode 258 of the omega tau podcast and is really interesting. So give it a try!

nilsdammfeld
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You asked what can the satellites that are still classified see? I hope not in the morning in my bathroom, after I've drank two cups of coffee.. :D

ursaltydog
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The part about sending the film back in buckets is pretty trippy. How would they add more film? Or did they just have a finite amount of film & buckets on board before the satellite became space junk?

Rsmith
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Depends on the frequency and size of sensors. It would probably be possible via radio waves to measure atmospheric disturbance and get sound too..

AllanBrunoPetersen
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Found Kim Jong-un in a zoo in North Korea :-D

pawanprakash
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Stop wondering what the modern classified satellites can see, think instead about the computer that's watching you through your smartphone.

tristramgardner
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so why is google earth so low resolution? after all the images are stationary not streaming..

kevinowenburress