{"id":11737,"date":"2023-04-15T16:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T16:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/chinese-spy-balloons-solar\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T16:10:06","slug":"chinese-spy-balloons-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/chinese-spy-balloons-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese spy balloon&#8217;s solar panels could power sophisticated radar -Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211;     A Chinese spy balloon that was shot down by the U.S. in February carried solar panels that could generate enough electricity to power a type of radar that can generate images at night and through clouds, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing leaked U.S. intelligence documents.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon&#8217;s surveillance capabilities were detailed in a U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) document allegedly leaked to a Discord chatroom by Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, the Post said.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira, 21, was charged on Friday in Boston with unlawfully copying and transmitting classified material.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon caused an uproar in Washington and damaged U.S.-China ties when it flew over the U.S. in January and February. It was downed off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4 by a missile fired from a U.S. Air Force jet.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NGA document, the balloon could generate up to 10,000 watts of solar power, more than enough to operate a sophisticated surveillance system known as synthetic aperture radar, the Post said.<\/p>\n<p>That type of radar can return images at night and can penetrate clouds and thin materials such as tarps to show objects beneath, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon also had a parabolic dish measuring 1.2 meters in diameter, several unidentified sensors and a possible mast antenna, the Post said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon declined a request by Reuters to comment on the Post report.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Daniel Wallis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/chinese-spy-balloons-solar\/file-photo-the-suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-drifts-to-the\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3E077-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3E077-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; A Chinese spy balloon that was shot down by the U.S. in February carried solar panels that could generate enough electricity to power a type of radar that can generate images at night and through clouds, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing leaked U.S. intelligence documents. The balloon&#8217;s surveillance capabilities were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3E077-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11739,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11737\/revisions\/11739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}