re what counntries do space surveillance the european space agency has involvement with remote earth observation and i presume this includes surveillance optical etc so it s not just the us ussr ex who are in the game but what is the game what can be done with space observation the military functions of missile spotting troop spotting etc are well documented but what about anything else the biggest eg i can think of is to get a metal sensing sat over a paying country and scan their territory for precious metals more importantly if radar can spot water vapour clouds presumably a radar based sat will be capable of spotting rivers open water and underground water from space this would be a positive life saver for african or other drought affected countries implementing a clean water and irrigation program would be of imense benifit to such countries and should cut down mortalities considerably so how about it is there a charity or government agency that would pay for a third world country to have their minerals and water deposits mapped or is this still sci fi mail replies would be great thought for the day thermal energy needs water to make steam so sstick it in the ocean marvin batty djf uk ac cov cck and they shall not find those things with a sort of rafia like base that their fathers put there just the night before at about o clock
