Beijing Deploys Hundreds of Satellites to Monitor Military Exercises in Australia

A Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket with a Chinese character slogan that reads "Heroic Wuhan, Great China" lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China's northwest Gansu province carrying two communications satellites on May 12, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images

Hundreds of Chinese satellites are currently hovering over Australia collecting information on military training activities involving allies and regional partners.

According to space data collected by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Beijing conducted a full scale surveillance of the recently completed “Exercise Talisman Sabre,” and now the “Exercise Malabar” being held off Sydney.