Subj : Domestic Satellite Surveillance
To   : All
From : warmfuzzy
Date : Sat Aug 09 2025 04:18:06

Everyone has heard about spy satellites monitoring foreign countries.  Something to consider however are domestic monitoring sats.  It would make perfect sense to monitor your own country before going about monitoring foreign countries.  Who can contest it?  Your own airspace is your own airspace after all, and it doesn't violate any treaties to monitor yourself.  Let's consider a serial murderer.  Now lets say that the murders were known to occur repeatedly in a certain region and at a certain time.  That the cops knew that bodies were being dropped off at a predictable pattern.  Well, you could zoom into that area when the criminal is thought to be on-site and nab him or her.  The criminal wouldn't see any surveillance vans, or people walking around, the whole thing could be an eye in the sky, totally without the murderer being any the wiser.

If I were into professional intelligence I would recommend this to my bosses. Who knows, maybe this is already a thing and I didn't know it.  Fun times, too, as you can imagine the misuse of a bird up there.  What would you monitor if you could monitor anything and everything visually in your country's air space?

Wow.
-warmfuzzy

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