China's 'World's Most Powerful Spy Camera'

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China's spy satellite 'can see faces from more than 60 MILES away'

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Scientists in Beijing have created 'the world's most powerful spy camera' It can pick out facial details from more than 63 miles ( 100km ) away.

Laser-based system could be launched aboard a satellite in the near future.

It uses a system called synthetic aperture lidar (SAL), a remote sensing technology that sends out a pulse of light energy and then records the amount of that energy reflected back.

Alarmingly, the device detected details as small as 0.07 inches ( 1.7mm ) and measured distances to within 0.61 inches ( 15.6mm ) It could also take high resolution images of foreign military satellites.

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