Russian companies appear to be selling images taken by Chinese satellites as footage from their own ...

Russian companies appear to be selling images taken by Chinese satellites as images from their own. What lies behind the scheme?

Russian authorities have decided to actively involve private businesses in the satellite launch industry. But as Russian space program researcher Bart Hendrickx discovered, these businesses do not always live up to their stated goals.

In a number of cases, Russian startups have allegedly sold images taken by Chinese satellites as images from their own.

How did Hendrickx and other researchers find this out? Why is it impossible to launch a satellite unnoticed in modern spaceflight? And how might Russia and China be disguising their cooperation, including in military space activities?

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Russian private companies launch satellites and sell their images. But someone else seems to have taken those pictures

Russian space companies are selling Chinese data as images from their own satellites. Russian space program researcher Bart Hendrickx uncovered the practice. He published his research on The Space Review website. Meduza…