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kleinbl00  ·  2944 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A NEMESIS in the Sky

The "spying on satellites" program is TEAL and there's precious little info on it. We know that two of its scopes (TEAL blue and TEAL amber) were used to check out Columbia's tiles to inspect for damage, which gives us an outside edge of what they can resolve from the ground. We can presume that since those scopes peeked, anything else that was up there peeked and didn't see any damage, which either tells us that there wasn't a lot of observable damage or that we didn't have anything practically close enough to really get a look. But our spysats-for-spysats program is super-spooky quiet.

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