The same satellites could also spot an SLBM launch from the Gulf of Alaska, though their coverage that far north was somewhat dependent on weather which, at the moment, was vile.

And last Saturday afternoon through its probing lens the satellite had spotted the tell-tale infrared 'paint', the sign of heat inside the submarine.

Neither of them was sure if the satellites could spot them through trees, anyway.

An American satellite spotted the cloud as it crossed the West Coast.

If any starship emerged within five hundred thousand kilometres of the planet, the satellites would spot it.

American early-warning satellites can spot the missile's fiery plume, allowing ground controllers to calculate the launcher's location.

You can probably expect fierce attacks from a large Soviet surface fleet that our satellites have spotted just west of your position at the start of the scenario.

But our satellites would have spotted an unloading operation out of the trawler, for instance, even if they did it at night or under the cloud cover.

On one single day last year, a satellite spotted 8,000 fires.

A military satellite had spotted the grounded flyer easily, its black armor glaring against the white background.