PURPOSE-BUILT
Feb 09, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS BY MATT GEORGE
PHOTOS COURTESY OF
MOONGLADE
BY
DAVID BINER
ELEVATED:
f you were just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada—at a secret military station in the desert—and were at the controls of US spy satellite RISAT 2BR1. And you happened to also be a surfer—imagine what you could find. Picture your satellite soaring over, say, Java, and you were curious about a surf spot you had seen in a magazine (or online) called Watukarung, a few kliks outside of some place called Pacitan. And what if you had used some simple research to get the global coordinates of the spot. Now, might you look over your shoulder to see if anyone inside the
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