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So U.S. spy agencies harrass astronomers running sky surveys like #PanSTARRS or #Rubin and try to censor their images to keep some #satellites and their orbits secret: theatlantic.com/science/archiv… or msn.com/en-us/news/technology/… - but doesn't the UN Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spa… require anyone launching something into orbit (essentially humanity's commons) to publicly disclose the orbit and other details? Something doesn't compute here at all ...
When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk
How do you know what you’re not allowed to see?Ross Andersen (The Atlantic)