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Caught on camera: Satellite tracker photographs secret spacecraft

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Amateur space watcher Felix Schöfbänker in Austria has caught some classified spy satellites with his 14 " Dobsonian telescope.

He has captured a new generation of optical and radar imaging U.S. reconnaissance satellites.

The FIA-Radars, also called Topaz , are five US spy satellites that carry a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) This technology can see through clouds and works night and day.

KH-11s are launched into Sun Synchronous orbits.

They pass over an area at the same time every day every day .

Maybe it's a solar panel, Schöfbänker says, but tracking the sun would require moving the entire satellite.

Most big countries have their own observatories dedicated to this kind of imaging.

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