[grapevines]

I believe it’s a sort of satellite-mounted weapon, and not extricable in any way from full surveillance a la smartphone location or - even worse, multiple exploited access points thus triangulating location.

I think it’s most logically a geo-stationary satellite, so wherever launches those might have more information about who might have a radio transmitter or two up there.

[ggm]

This was Philip K Dicks persistent hallucination/psychosis. It has been a constant in SF culture since he wrote on it in "valis" and other novels. He was however, quite open about the hallucinatory qualities of his belief.

[crummy]

are there satellites in geostationary orbits directly above these embassies? we could find them pretty easy, couldn't we?

[detaro]

You can't put geostationary satellites over random points of the globe, they have to be over the equator.