(February 12, 2023 at 8:17 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Update on the first balloon is exactly as expected. Quantico says it was "capable of signals intelligence" which is one way to say that it has an antenna - and that that it didn't have any capabilities above and beyond what china already had through other means.
I think the balloon was said to be capable of signal intelligence because of the result of analysis of the intercepted telemetry from the balloon, not because it had an antenna.