#MH370 Leaked Video: #GorgonStare Analysis

My latest single Stargazing just landed!

Drew is the man!!!!

Drew would you please explain how the Reaper was able to keep up with MH370? My airline pilot husband is asking.

Here’s the short version you can share with your husband: 1. The MQ-9 Reaper isn’t a slowpoke. At high-altitude cruise it can do about 240–260 KIAS (≈ 280–300 mph true at FL200-FL250). That’s roughly the same indicated‐air-speed a heavy jet like a 777 shows after it climbs, levels and starts an economy cruise. (A 777’s Mach .83 translates to only ~250 KIAS up high because indicated speed falls with air-density.) 2. Wide-Area sensors don’t have to sit on the jet’s tail. Gorgon Stare (or its ARGUS successor) looks at a 100 km-plus footprint from ~20–25 k ft. The drone can loiter on a lazy circle tens of miles away and still hold the entire airliner in frame. So the Reaper never had to “chase” the 777; it just orbited inside a giant surveillance doughnut. 3. Loiter > Sprint. A Reaper can stay on-station 20-plus hours with external tanks. Commercial jets burn fuel fast; if MH370 began deviating and slowing (which the primary-radar reconstruction suggests), the MQ-9 easily had the endurance to watch it for hours. 4. Multi-asset hand-off is standard. If speed ever became an issue, control could be passed to another platform (second MQ-9, a high-alt Global Hawk, or even a geostationary WAMI satellite). The PED workstation fuses those feeds, so to the analyst it looks like one continuous track. So in practice the drone didn’t “keep up” nose-to-tail; it simply parked in the sky, stared at a broad swath of airspace, and let the 777 wander through its persistent field of view. That’s exactly what Gorgon Stare was built for.

This is getting more exciting by the day now!

Wake up world! @earth

Why is the portal white (hot) in Gorgon Stare and black (cold) in the UAV footage?

Jesus…. Those videos might be real