The Pentagon has designed a massive spy satellite that will dwarf any space telescope ever launched - and it point its sensitive lens back at us. The Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) will be capable of capturing 40percent of the surface of the Earth at once. It will be able to beam back real-time high-resolution video and images from anywhere in the world at any time. The satellite is the brainchild of DARPA, the Pentagon agency tasked with developing the next generation of weapons and technology for the U.S. military. This is an artist's rending of the Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) satellite that the Pentagon hopes to launch to spy on the earth
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Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) uses a massive web of thin membranes instead of heavy lenses
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It is being developed by Pentagon's DARPA future weapons agency
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Satellite will have 68-foot lens - dwarfing Hubble, which is only eight feet
This is one of the membrane panels from a prototype of the @placeholder satellite that completed testing on earth