KH Super Platform

A named U.S. orbital surveillance platform — the KH Super Platform — presented as a large, reroutable intelligence asset with long-range sensor capability and multi-spectral collection arrays. In the Situation Room it registers not as a tactile prop but as a live, taskable node on briefing consoles: staff reference it, operators prepare to redirect it, and the President orders it diverted, treating it as the administration's immediate window onto unfolding troop movements.

2 appearances

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S1E11 · Lord John Marbury

Midnight Briefing — 300,000 in Kashmir

The KH Super Platform is explicitly tasked to a stationary orbit over the Northern subcontinent as an immediate intelligence response—named as the high-end asset the CIA will use to fill the surveillance gap and supply imagery for follow-up decisions.

Before: Available and reroutable in orbit (not yet focused on the crisis area).

After: Tasked and scheduled to reach station over the Northern subcontinent within the provided ETA (six hours), mobilized as the administration's primary sensor asset.

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S1E11 · Lord John Marbury

Missed Warning — Bartlet Confronts Intelligence and Activates Crisis Task Force

Referenced by the CIA Director as the taskable orbital asset now being diverted to hold stationary over the Northern subcontinent; narratively it represents the administration's immediate technical remedy to an intelligence failure.

Before: Routinely assigned to global surveillance duties, not focused on Kashmir when the invasion began.

After: Tasked and being diverted into stationary orbit over the Northern subcontinent to provide sustained, high-resolution surveillance.

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