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kleinbl00  ·  2979 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A NEMESIS in the Sky

Some are.

Here's the thing - it's a pain in the ass to hide launches. Anybody who monitors the news even a little bit knows when something is going up. Once it's up, you have a pretty good idea of where it is because ballistics. If it decides to go somewhere else, observers on the ground note that it changes position and calculate because ballistics. So actually making a satellite disappear is a stone-cold pain in the ass.

Not that it doesn't happen.