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0 pointstempest_2mo ago0 comments

Sure any single one but there are many companies, some with hundreds of satellites in orbit at any given time who will point it where ever if you pay them enough

Which is why you get things like this https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/05/satellite-firm-planet-labs-t...

An aircraft carrier is not that fast, if you see it once you know roughly what radius of circle it is going to be in for a while (ignoring the fact that they are likely going somewhere for a reason its not their job is to say out of sight)

edit: aha that company literally lists it on their website https://www.planet.com/industries/maritime/

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wredcoll2mo ago· 2 in thread

This is literally the point: it's easy to tell them to point a satellite at beirut and get pictures every 3 hours or whatever, it's much more difficult to tell them to point at a location in the middle of the pacific ocean... because you don't know the location in the first place.

Beirut doesn't move around a lot. Carriers do. While there are a lot of satellites pointing at the earth at any one moment, this isn't some kind of Hollywood super screen showing a real time image of the entire pacific. You just see whatever small patch the satellite happens to be pointing at.

And again, ignoring the part where america would probably start shooting down satellites.

shmeeed2mo ago

>because you don't know the location in the first place

Do you seriously think China doesn't track US carrier movements?

wredcoll2mo ago

Do you seriously think the US Navy doesn't avoid Chinese tracking? What kind of a question is that? Like, there's probably a magazine that lists the cruising destinations of most of the carriers, what ports they're going to stop at next, etc, because, you know, they're not at war and trying to maintain secrecy.

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