Earlier this month, for example, a fire at one relay station temporarily blinded four Russian satellites.
The Russian satellites send signals that are usable now but work only intermittently.
In a war, you'd have quite a time hiding a ship this big from Russian satellites.
The object appeared to be a Russian satellite that re-entered the atmosphere and broke up.
Russian satellites may be cheaper but lack high-resolution cameras and can remain in orbit only a few months.
We know that our carriers can and do evadf Russian radar-ocean-recon satellites.
On any given day, between 70 and 110 Russian satellites are orbiting the Earth.
I have to time the Russian satellite precisely to keep my window small.
The American and possibly Russian satellites would be looking for an aircraft by now.
Some 100-200 engines completed their mission on Soviet and Russian satellites until the late 1990s.