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Chris Biggers
@CSBiggers
Mission Applications Director @hawkeye360, commercial GEOINT & OSINT; words at @JanesINTEL; former @NGA_GEOINT, @planet, @USDOT, usual caveats
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Feb 22, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Handheld video uploaded to Tik-Tok shows Novoozerne corresponding with Planet collection on 19FEB2022. Recent @planet collection on 21FEB2022 showed that the equipment previously in convoy formation on 19FEB had relocated. Image
Feb 13, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Imagery acquired 12FEB2022 by @capellaspace shows armored formed up at Alchevsk. (again another typo fix, sry.) Image Welcome to the 'count-the-blob' game. @planet's Planetscope imagery acquired on 13FEB2022. Image
Jan 30, 2022 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
This is Luninets AB, located approximately 50 km north of the Ukrainian border in #Belarus. It's a reserve airfield that we often see used in air and air defense exercises. (Imagery: @planet) Image Similarly, we also have Babryusk AB, another reserve airfield that #Russia has previously used in air defense exercises with Belarus. Like Luninets, we have an active EW site and a cleared runway. (Imagery: @planet) Image
Jan 13, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
As #china claimed the Sakteng wildlife sanctuary in eastern #bhutan in June 2020—in likely an effort to sow further confusion—it built a new track to one of four new areas cleared for construction in the Dramana and Shakhatoe areas of western Bhutan. shorturl.at/gipNW Given the Ladakh crisis that had just begun, it’s likely decision makers were off-balance as China exerted additional pressure with new deployments along the LAC, some of which we still see today. (imagery: @planet)
Jan 18, 2021 • 23 tweets • 10 min read
With news of the village finally leaking, we may add some color to other developments. We'll see what time allows today. For starters, we located the pop-up position of the unit likely previously deployed at Gonggar Image
Sep 6, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
@planetlabs has a series of great collects of China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Interestingly, the rotating service structure on pad 921 underwent modification in June likely to accommodate a larger payload fairing on the LM-2F rocket for the 4 September launch. Image Here's a quick look at the service structure before modification. Image
Aug 17, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
A couple of J-20 touched down briefly at Hotan as tensions remain between India and China. Image lol here's the catalog:
Mar 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Nuclear alerting would start at the first hints of a crisis in which decision makers foresee possible military escalation".<--Our first datapoint for this occured during Balakot. During Doklam Arihant was still undergoing repairs. Of course, while Arihant may have been out during various periods of the Balakot crisis, we still don't know if nuclear warheads were mated.
May 3, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
To keep foothold in government market, satellite imaging companies have to gain trust spacenews.com/to-keep-footho… "There is no denying that intelligence analysts were raised to view unclassified data as less valuable than classified information, said Robert Cardillo, director of the NGA. [...]The culture is not easy to change even in this era of rapid technological innovation" [...]