UK military taps up astronomers to spot snooping foreign satellites
The UK is unable to match the advanced surveillance and counter-surveillance programmes run by the US, China and Russia, but it is working with civilian astronomers to develop a way of monitoring spy…
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BREAKING — New Scientist reports that the United Kingdom, lacking the surveillance capabilities of major military powers, has turned to civilian astronomers to track foreign spy satellites from the ground. The partnership enlists stargazers in a kind of open-sky vigilance, turning instruments built for cosmic wonder toward earthly suspicion. It is a modest solution to an outsized problem, and one that trades billion-dollar constellations for human attention and existing hardware.
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