Detecting Secret Military Exercises With Micro Satellites, a How-To
By Patrick Tucker Read bio
June 21, 2017
The future of intelligence is small teams and tiny satellites. It’s not a future the U.S. will own exclusively.
Detecting an adversary’s unscheduled naval exercise used to require a massive operation perhaps involving multiple agencies. In March 2017, a small team of analysts with a firm called 3GIMBALS, working with U.S. Southern Command, used imagery from a constellation of inexpensive microsatellites to pick up an unscheduled military exercise in Venezuela that had taken place a year prior. How they did it says a lot about the future of intelligence collection from space, where the U.S. has a rapidly shrinking advantage.
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