[thegrim33]

I can not believe that modern ones stay perfectly static without any built-in maneuvering capability to periodically change their orbit. I also can not believe that there isn't effectively continuous coverage of important sites by multiple satellites. You really think the billions (trillions?) of dollars spent on such equipment is completely outsmarted by people just covering things up on a set timetable?

[Teever]

Those period adjustments of orbit can be detected and accounted for and the fuel to make frequent and erratic changes is prohibitively expensive to carry.

Drones can also get better quality images than even many if not all spy satellites due to how close they can get to objects compared to the satellites.

[netsharc]

I speculate that there are US satellites up there watching the movements of Chinese satellites.

I suppose they also have signal monitoring, the commands to the Chinese satellites would be encrypted but the mere detection of a signal should cause the observers to warn whomever it may concern within the US military/government behemoth.

Now I'm imagining signals being hidden in Chinese satellite TV uplink, amongst the Chinese pop music videos...

[supertrope]

Isn’t fuel on satellites very limited?

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Has one ever had too much information?