'Chinese spy balloon' was 'crammed' with US hardware

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Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say

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Russian drones full of DSLR cams and Chinese spy balloons filled with Ti-84's and Ring doorbells. This future feels like we all fell into the dollar store dimension.

I don't buy that it didn't send data back to China. That's a little too much to believe.

Given the distance from China, and assuming it had no satellite communication hardware, are there any other ways data could have transmitted that sort of distance?

Sincerely wondering/asking

Yeah that's a good question. I can't imagine the plan was for the Chinese to actually physically retrieve the balloon to get the data...