Argus (satellite)

The Argus-class orbital surveillance/navigation platform is manufactured by Impulse Multinational for the British Deep Black, and form part of the basis of the British National Defence Network (NDN). Forty Argus-class satellites are part of the NDN, with Damien having backdoors into the feeds from all of them.

The Argus-class satellite is a highly advanced surveillance microsatellite capable of worldwide surveillance and navigation. Packaged into a cubic metre sized block and armoured with VANTABlack on ceramic foam/fibre, they are virtually undetectable against the backdrop of space. Power is provided with 3D solar cell spikes and stored in graphene supercapacitors. The Argus-class is equipped with an independent, millimetre accurate positioning system separate from GPS, solely used for military and Deep Black purposes, and is capable of tracking 2,000 targets simultaneously. They are equipped with the following surveillance equipment:
 * UHDTV camera with night vision, capable of reading a newspaper from orbit
 * HD thermal camera, capable of detecting objects as small as rats and as shielded as submarines underwater
 * Synthetic aperture radar, for vision in bad weather
 * Ground penetrating radar, capable of detecting bunkers up to 100m underground
 * LIDAR, capable of producing millimetre accurate maps of kilometre square areas
 * Magnetic anomaly detector, capable of detecting submarines underwater, vehicles under camouflage, bunkers underground