US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the “wrong direction”

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About 170 Starshield satellites built by SpaceX for the US government’s National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have been sending signals in the wrong direction, a satellite researcher found.

The spacecraft are not sending signals in the wrong direction. That's a seriously terrible was to describe what is going on. The spacecraft are sending signals precisely where they're intended, just using an unapproved frequency. Come on Ars, you can do better than that.
 
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