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Six hundred and eighty-six kilometers above the Nevada desert, the Göktürk-2 earth observation satellite captured images of the flight’s final moments and complete destruction.
The signal was delayed by over three hundred milliseconds as it was relayed through two RASAT communications satellites before being beamed to the ground, eleven thousand kilometers away.
There was an additional hundred-and-twenty-millisecond delay as the signal was processed at the Gölbaşi Ground Station south of Ankara, Turkey, rerouted, delivered, and finally decrypted.
Nineteen milliseconds later, the image reached an office in subbasement two of the Siberkume building.
