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by KineticLensman 670 days ago
The British have had military satellites since Skynet 1A in 1969 [0], although these historically supported comms rather than ISR.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)

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yes which only makes sense they were used to support five eyes sigint and used US satellites for visint