Flight 370. The mystery remains. Were covering every angle with cnns reporters all over the globe. Kyung lah is in perth, australia. Richard quest is here with me in new york. I want to start with kyung lah. Its 9 00 a. M. In perth. The search is resumresuming. The u. S. Seventh fleet sending a second p 8 poseidon aircraft to perth. How significant is that . Reporter what it tells us they know theyre searching in the right area. Its another bread crumb. All the satellite images were getting out of this region. So theyre getting close. They want to have the best tools to and go try to retrieve them, try to figure out and triangulate is this in fact the debris . The p 8 poseidon is perhaps the best item in the tool box for the u. S. Military, because it is a longrange aircraft. Its an allweather aircraft. When we were speaking to the p 8 crew yesterday, we are embedded to go on board the p 8 today. What they were saying is that ice is a factor. Its starting to turn as far as the weather
very much indeed for joining us tonight. i want to go to lee romaine now. a satellite imagery analyst. the perfect person to talk to about where we are with these satellites. let s have simple q and a here. how many satellites are there in the world, up in the stars there looking down? how many are currently engaged in this search, and how powerful are tele? well, there are a total of about 1600 satellites up in space currently. but those are not all imaging satellites. the satellites, where they re being utilized currently, are the optical satellites. day glow has five of those. astrium the friends in space has four of those. all those are being utilized. then there are the terrastar x-ray cterrastar