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North Korea: Kim Jong Un celebrates 'space power' after spy satellite launch (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[โ€“] Madison420 1 points 1 year ago

Well not all spy sats are for photography, some are gpr, sigint (essentially sneaking up and grabbing stray data), piggy backs literally adding mass to fuck a satellites orbit and make it die faster. There's a bucket of fun stuff they can do but basically all of it involves not being known.