{"id":133235,"date":"2021-12-29T05:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-headache-for-us-military-china-says-its-tiny-satellite-can-capture-crystal-clear-images-of-american-cities"},"modified":"2021-12-29T05:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:22:30","slug":"new-headache-for-us-military-china-says-its-tiny-satellite-can-capture-crystal-clear-images-of-american-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-headache-for-us-military-china-says-its-tiny-satellite-can-capture-crystal-clear-images-of-american-cities","title":{"rendered":"New Headache For US Military? China Says Its Tiny Satellite Can Capture \u2018Crystal Clear\u2019 Images Of American Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-headache-for-us-military-china-says-its-tiny-satellite-can-capture-crystal-clear-images-of-american-cities2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Chinese inroads into space have got strategic circles abuzz with discussions about a possible revival of a Cold War-type competition between the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China has yet again made headlines with a move that goes beyond just sending missions to the Moon or Mars. It has claimed to have launched a satellite that could take high-resolution photos of American cities from space, which can capture even details of a vehicle\u2019s number plate.<\/p>\n<p>According to experts, a Chinese satellite captured photographs of a vast region around a US city in just 42 seconds, crisp enough to recognize a military vehicle on the street and tell what type of weapon it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3161178\/nimble-chinese-satellite-grabs-hi-res-images-us-city-seconds\">might<\/a> be carrying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese inroads into space have got strategic circles abuzz with discussions about a possible revival of a Cold War-type competition between the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union. China has yet again made headlines with a move that goes beyond just sending missions to the Moon or Mars. It has claimed to have launched [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}