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Alright, KB9NSK, this is KC2PKG, I'm reading a fascinating article about dogfighting in space. Apparently we've been doing it for a couple of years. These are our satellites, our spy satellites, you know, for want of a better term, to get behind Chinese satellites and take pictures of them. And they're getting close to each other, I mean it's like half a mile apart. they're constantly maneuvering to try and get out of each other's way or you know get into the superior position because you want the Sun behind you so you can see the other satellite. It's pretty wild and just the latest thing was the Chinese came up with a satellite with an arm on it a grappling arm and it rolled up next to one of their own satellites that was dead not working and and it towed it up to a higher orbit. When it was out of the way it wouldn't collide. But this is all happening over the equator where you can do a good geostationary orbit and a lot of spy satellites and weather satellites and stuff like that like to park up there and they can like goes east and goes west which are basically weather satellites that watch the United States and all the weather that's going on there. But now now they're dodging other satellites, and they're moving around. It's pretty interesting I think if you're wondering what Space Force does this is what this is what they do Hey, they dogfight their satellites, so that's pretty cool anyway back to you Russell Kb9 NSK. This is Casey to be paid