[HN Gopher] Yinpiao Zhou Charged with Drone Flying over Vandenberg
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       Yinpiao Zhou Charged with Drone Flying over Vandenberg
        
       Author : mistrial9
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2024-12-12 20:10 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.justice.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.justice.gov)
        
       | gnabgib wrote:
       | Small discussion (8 points, 20 hours ago, 4 comments)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394463
        
       | aaron695 wrote:
       | Some autistic nerd filming space launches, being talked about by
       | autistic nerds who think Chinese spys are everywhere.
       | 
       | At least he gets out of the house ( drone footage of space
       | launches is cool but not worth risking permanent residency on )
       | 
       | Better info here if anyone on HN can think/read -
       | 
       | https://www.scribd.com/document/803565809/court-doc
        
         | maxglute wrote:
         | Yeah sounds like a dummy space nerd. As if PRC needs drone
         | footages of Vandenberg.
         | 
         | >ZHOU also recognized thatphotographing the SpaceX facility on
         | VSFB was "probably not agood idea
         | 
         | ...
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         | >ZHOU said he previously got into trouble in Chinafor flying a
         | UAS in a restricted area. More specifically, ZHOUwas arrested
         | for flying a UAS near a government building atPeople's Square
         | in Shanghai. He was subsequently fined for this.ZHOU did not
         | register the UAS in China either.
         | 
         | ...
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         | >ZHOU originally downloaded the bypasssoftware in 2019 to get
         | around the no-fly zones in Shanghai.Referencing the bypass
         | software and his UAS, ZHOU said,"Normally, if you didn't have
         | that software, it wouldn't be ableto take off from here.
         | 
         | OTOH
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         | >Notably, on that same day, November 30, 2024, a sensitive
         | payload developed for the National Reconnaissance Office had
         | been launched to orbit by a space contractor.
        
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