China's Autonomous "Tip-and-Cue" Satellites

How China's multi-INT satellite networks pursue automated, high-speed targeting.

This is Part 4, the finale of our series on China’s space-based ISR capabilities. Part 1 covered foundational SIGINT/ELINT constellations. Part 2 looked at imagery satellites (EO/IR and SAR.) Part 3 explored China’s strides in automatic target recognition (ATR). Now, we examine how the PLA integrates these into multi-phenomenology “tip-and-cue” systems,…