Important Takeaways:

• A Chinese national has been arrested on suspicion of flying a drone to take photographs over a US Space Force base.
• Federal police arrested Yinpiao Zhou on Monday after he was allegedly caught flying a drone over the Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California.
• In a criminal complaint, the US Attorney’s Office said Mr. Zhou flew a drone over the base and took photographs on Nov 30 – the same day it launched a rocket on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office.
• He has been accused of violating national defense aerospace, and of failing to register an aircraft as required under US law.
• The incident was the latest in a series of unauthorized drone sightings above US air bases, including two in the UK last month.
• The complaint against Mr. Zhou, filed in California, says he admitted to installing software on his drone to evade both limits on the height the device could fly at and a virtual fence around the Vandenberg base.
• The drone was allegedly in the air for 59 minutes and took photographs of SpaceX rocket pads and other sensitive areas.

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