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posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 28 2017, @10:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-can-see-you! dept.

Could ghost imaging spy satellite be a game changer for Chinese military?

China is developing a new type of spy satellite using ghost imaging technology that could change the game of military cat and mouse within a decade, according to scientists involved in the project.

Existing camouflage techniques – from simple smoke bombs used to hide tanks or soldiers on battlefields to the hi-tech radar absorption materials on a stealth aircraft or warship – would be of no use against ghost imaging, physics experts said.

Quantum ghost imaging can achieve unprecedented sensitivity by detecting not just the extremely small amount of light straying off a dim target, but also its interactions with other light in the surrounding environment to obtain more information than traditional methods.

A satellite equipped with the new quantum sensor would be able to identify and track targets that are currently invisible from space, such as stealth bombers taking off at night, according to researchers.

The U.S. Air Force and NASA have also researched this technology.


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday November 29 2017, @01:50AM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday November 29 2017, @01:50AM (#602774) Homepage Journal

    The US Navy was unaware that the Chinese sub had been there until the photo showed up in the evening newspaper.

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  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:40AM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:40AM (#602883)

    If you know the approx date and it was in the newspaper (presumably you know _which_ newspaper) then it, or the redacted pages, should be findable by searching newspaper archives. A lot of these are now digital but timeframe for switchover may be after the date you want.

    So the bad thing is, you may need to go fishing in microfilms in the library, good thing is the men in black may not have done that (yet... but now we have this thread...)