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NRO chief: “You can’t hide” from our new swarm of SpaceX-built spy satellites

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The National Reconnaissance Office is taking advantage of SpaceX's Starlink satellite assembly line to build a network of at least 100 satellites.

So far, more than 80 of these SpaceX-made spacecraft, each a little less than a ton in mass, have launched on four Falcon 9 rockets.

A large number of these mass-produced satellites will provide regularly updated imagery of foreign military installations and other sites of interest to US intelligence agencies.

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formal

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English

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