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penteractyesterday at 11:14 PM1 replyview on HN

> like they found for Russia tracking launch sites in Ukraine

My understanding of that section was that Ukraine were using it to find launch sites in occupied parts of Ukraine - they go on to describe how they helped someone who had been doing the tracking:

[From article]

> We emailed back and forth and provided documentation on how to run the predictor locally.

Edit: my recollection of which parts of Ukraine are occcupied was wrong, leaving me rather confused about who they thought they were helping.


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aleksejstoday at 12:53 AM

I think the actor they were monitoring was not tracking real launches but rather simulating where a hypothetical balloon launched from their territory would land.