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US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data

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300 points drewr | 1 comments | 28 Jun 25 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.237s | source
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skiboyec ◴[29 Jun 25 01:26 UTC] No.44409629[source]▶
My hunch is that the location of the satellites can be deduced from the weather data. These satellites would be a target in a time of war.
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skiboyec ◴[29 Jun 25 01:58 UTC] No.44409759[source]▶
Hmm I think I’m wrong. From what I can tell satellites , especially those in LEO can be optically tracked pretty easily
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1. sorcerer-mar ◴[29 Jun 25 02:04 UTC] No.44409787[source]▶
Yeah I was going to say: you can also know where satellites are by looking at them. Obviously we're not publishing weather data from the ones with important natsec equipment onboard.