Hubble replicas
Hubble replicas
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The United States has just announced the creation of an intelligence squad dedicated to threatening satellites and the ground stations that support them, in orbit there is a fight between various powers but unlike conflicts on the ground we do not find out, only some astrophotographers are what skilled enough to see what's going on up there from the comfort of their backyards.
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Actually, Hubble does not have a single spy replica, 18 units of the KH-11 have been built, not counting one that was destroyed during launch, six of them are still active in orbit and each of them passes over our heads once every four. days, this means that they can obtain images of anything anywhere at least once a day, this is used to monitor troop movement, construction of facilities or vehicles such as planes, submarines and aircraft carriers.
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If the hubble was pointed at the earth you would not see anything, the fastest exposure of its cameras is one tenth of a second in that period of time the hubble moves 700 meters and is not capable of following objects on the ground while moving so so the image would just be a blur, but even if you could track the same object on the ground for that long it would be blurry because hubble has its optics and instruments permanently focused at infinity and objects on the ground would be out of range. focus.
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Their orbits are also very different, Hubble orbits at an altitude of 540 kilometers while the KH-11s have lower orbits that pass through the poles between 200 and 400 kilometers in altitude, this also increases the atmospheric drag they suffer or is the atmosphere, despite being very tenuous at these altitudes, still slows down the objects in orbit and that causes them to fall over time, so these spy satellites have to use their boosters from time to time to raise their orbits and avoid fall back to earth.
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That same sharpness in a spy satellite with a primary mirror of the same size and the same focal length as Hubble can see a lot of detail on the surface, its images have a resolution of 7 centimeters per pixel, this means that it cannot distinguish your expensive, but it does know how much clothes are dried on your clothesline, it is a quality similar to that of Google Maps which are photographs taken from airplanes but the images of the KH-11 are updated daily, that is, Uncle Sam can see absolutely everything that Don't be covered by clouds with these telescopes with incredible detail and near real-time updates.
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