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NitpickLawyertoday at 7:06 AM0 repliesview on HN

Those are filtered in the data processing pipelines, before the data is exported. Streak-detection algorithms work very well, and they can mask known satellites from the data. It was, in fact, a key requirement of them being allowed to operate. VR is sensitive enough that it can sense the "secret" [1] national security sats, so they filter those early in the pipeline, and only issue alerts for things that are not satellites.

[1] - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/12/vera-rub...