Two U.S. government satellites were each hacked twice between 2007 and 2008, potentially by someone with ties to the Chinese military, according to the draft of a forthcoming report obtained by Bloomberg from the U.S.-China Economic Review Commission, a Congressional advisory panel.One satellite reportedly affected was Landsat-7, a ground mapping satellite launched by NASA in 1999 that continues to orbit the earth, managed by the U.S. Geological Survey, snapping high-res, sun-lit, cloud-free satellite photos of Earth’s changing landscapes for use in a number of applications, including wildfire tracking and recovery and locating fossils.
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