Chinese Balloon Shot Down

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(02-05-2023, 02:25 PM)GMDino Wrote: If that is when they saw it.

First time I saw it in the news it was over Montana.

Nonetheless they had a plan, which included limiting the amount of information it could collect.

Lets face it, the balloon isn't a great way to get info.  They probably get more from the satellites.  

Just because YOU were first aware of the balloon over Montana doesn’t mean that’s when the rest of us first knew about it!

Tell me how “they” limited the amount of information collected by sensors on board.

You may be right about the balloon vs. satellite collection efficiency but in remote sensing signal falloff in the visible to the radiofrequency region goes by the reciprocal of the distance squared — and 60,000 feet is WAY closer to the target than satellites in low earth orbit. If the sensor is an active radar it falls off by the distance to the fourth power.