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Very interesting animation regarding the Yaogan-30's semi permanent coverage over Taipei:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkZOaMy4q08&

EDIT: Yeah, I see it is already posted above by the original author gosnold. Thanks for the great work!



Also, we totally missed the Gaofen-13 launch Oct 11 this year, right?

That thing looks like to be the upgraded Gaofen-4 variant, but with much better resolution (15m vs 50m of the GF-4); all at geostationary orbit.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/gf-13.htm
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/10 ... gaofen-13/

Also related to that; there are claims that the August 2020 DF-21D and DF-26 tests actually hit a moving target ship:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/militar ... hit-target

Yes, Gaofen-13 should be able to precisely identify ships by accurately measuring their length, and might even be able to track aircrafts taxying at airbases.