return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoU.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicatewww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1516arrow-down116cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1500arrow-down1external-linkU.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicatewww.nbcnews.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square46fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareparaphrand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·11 months agoIt could have even been one of those multi SIM router things that has network redundancy.
minus-squarepostmateDumbass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoThe blurb says primarily for navigation. So it was using the starlink signals like gps signal and therefore they needed to correlate with the carrier to get a rough time sync. I wonder what timing data is freely available on the starlink acquisition signal.
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minus-squarepostmateDumbass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoMapping out network topology? Who knows. Whatever the collected data was, it could have been sent to their satellites for long haul back home.
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It could have even been one of those multi SIM router things that has network redundancy.
The blurb says primarily for navigation.
So it was using the starlink signals like gps signal and therefore they needed to correlate with the carrier to get a rough time sync.
I wonder what timing data is freely available on the starlink acquisition signal.
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Mapping out network topology? Who knows.
Whatever the collected data was, it could have been sent to their satellites for long haul back home.