{"id":1170807,"date":"2021-12-29T21:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170807"},"modified":"2021-12-29T21:19:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T02:19:46","slug":"china-builds-satellite-that-can-take-high-quality-photos-of-american-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-builds-satellite-that-can-take-high-quality-photos-of-american-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"China Builds Satellite That Can Take High-Quality Photos Of American Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-builds-satellite-that-can-take-high-quality-photos-of-american-cities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>China built a satellite that can capture high-quality images of entire cities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/china-space-race-satellite-high-resolution-san-francisco-in-seconds-2021-12\">Business Insider<\/a> summarized:<\/p>\n<p>The commercial Beijing-3 satellite, launched by China in June, conducted an in-depth scan of a 1,470 square-mile area in the San Francisco Bay. The satellite captured the area within 42 seconds, The South China Morning Post first reported, citing results published this month in the Chinese peer-reviewed journal Spacecraft Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing-3 has a unique advantage up its sleeve: It can pitch and yaw at up to 10 degrees per second while not compromising image quality as it orbits the Earth, said lead scientist Yang Fang, who headed the project run by DFH Satellite Company under the Chinese Academy of Space and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, satellite cameras have to be kept still when they take high-definition images, and thus can only observe straight strips of land as they orbit above the area. So they sometimes have to fly over a region multiple times to scan the whole area or work in tandem with other satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Business Insider noted that although the image quality produced by Beijing-3 does not yet rival American satellites such as Lockheed Martin\u2019s Worldview-4, the Chinese satellite\u2019s response time is doubly or triply as fast.<\/p>\n<p>In a panel <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/04\/politics\/american-experts-us-china-space-race\/index.html\">interview<\/a> moderated by CNN reporter Kristin Fisher earlier this month, Gen. David Thompson \u2014 vice chief of space operations for the United States Space Force \u2014 warned that China is advancing its space technology at a far faster pace than the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact, that in essence, on average, they are building and fielding and updating their space capabilities at twice the rate we are means that very soon, if we don\u2019t start accelerating our development and delivery capabilities, they will exceed us,\u201d Thompson said, predicting that China could overtake the United States in space capabilities by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) argued that the United States must therefore expand the Space Force\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great that the private sector is so much more innovative than our Air Force was, and we need to get the Space Force to be much more innovative and try to keep up with the private sector,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cTo really be superior, we\u2019ve got to go beyond Elon Musk\u2019s imagination, Jeff Bezos\u2019 imagination, beyond their pocketbooks. [The] budget right now is $17 billion \u2014 that\u2019s a lot of money, but considering how crucial space is, are we doing enough?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate interview with outgoing Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-space-force-general-details-strategy-u-s-is-using-to-counteract-chinese-aggression-in-race-for-space-dominance\">said<\/a> that the United States will counter China with new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe term we use is resilience, and we make it such that it\u2019s too hard, too expensive, and too unlikely that they\u2019ll succeed in creating a \u2014 the effect they want because, rather than the past, when we\u2019ve had a small number of very sophisticated, very capable satellites, we now intend to field more and more and more lower-cost, lower-capable that provide, in aggregate, the same capability,\u201d Thompson explained. \u201cTherefore, there\u2019s not as much value in attempting to attacking them in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China built a satellite that can capture high-quality images of entire cities. Business Insider summarized: The commercial Beijing-3 satellite, launched by China in June, conducted an in-depth scan of a 1,470 square-mile area in the San Francisco Bay. The satellite captured the area within 42 seconds, The South China Morning Post first reported, citing results &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}