satellites

Perhaps an orbiting network of solar powered satellites that can each manage large numbers of directed power beams.

Or, if the case of total war, you blow the freaking satellites out of space with missiles.

That's nuclear which requires a immense amount of fuel which probably does not make sense for satellites.

Microwaves would work to if you are careful about your wavelengths and don't point them at satellites.

Did some digging and there's a whole load of things which can potentially be picked up, including dead satellites [0].

Every major power has surveillance satellites specifically designed for keeping track of naval fleets.

Dozens of transiting satellites, transmitting at a fairly constant volume, but of random data?

I think weather satellites were meant to be useful to everyone who could receive the signal.

Plus the design requirement to bring back satellites from the orbit.

But by checking how the source is moving it is quite easy to tell if source is local or not, and sure enough all these artificial sources come from satellites, the troposphere, or an unshielded microwave.

People understand that satellites, etc make our lives better.

GPS only works because we can use satellites to track deep space objects.

This headline "Telemetry Data on All Satellites Orbiting Earth" is a little misleading -- they are orbital elements.

I looked for actual metric of satellites that is remotely obtained (thus, "telemetry") like voltage, etc.

They had Turing's "bombe", multiple Enigma variants, many lesser-known crypto machines, historic correspondence, a Cray YMP, codetalkers exhibit, spy satellites, and tons of other good stuff.

I've personally been with the company for over a year, working on "Mission Control", an internal web app for managing the satellites and make life easier on our "Spaceship Captains" -- the operators who manage them.

Satellites can actually be destroyed using weapons that aren't in space.