Where does space really begin? Chinese spy balloon highlights legal fuzziness of ‘near space’
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What would that balloon have learned that wasn't already on Google earth and publicly available GPS data?
A good anount of RF traffic
Still, if you were a Chinese intelligence officer that was aware that the U.S. military had been shadowing your receiver during its overflight, how much would you trust the information you were allowed to acquire?
Not a ton, but apparently these have gone unnoticed before.
Or at any rate that's what we'd like them to think.
You know... the balloon could have two way radio. It could have sent data out as well... even to simple things like cell phone towers.
Very true. I suppose we'll probably never know the full truth of it
nothing - but it costs the US a lot of money to shoot it down!
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