Capricorn One - I never said that. I said the script was originally about faking a moon mission so they changed it up to faking a Mars mission for obvious reasons.
However, Keanu Reeves said the Matrix was a documentary. One interesting fact about that movie was his drivers license expiration date was Sept, 11 2001. The movie came out in 1999.
For all you Coincidence Theorists out there
That is a nice co-incidence of dates. But it is a fact that many, many things are associated with the same date. Virtually all of them are meaningless co-incidences.
Here's a meaningful (ahem) coincidence for you: Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still lived at number 309. So did I from the age of 1 until many years later.
Worldview 3 satellites can read license plates.....launched in 2014. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/12938/20140813/digitalglobe-launching-hi-res-satellite.htm
Nope.
It has "31 cm resolution" according to your article. That is a very long way from what would be needed.
There is no good evidence of enormously superior satellite imaging. The physics gets in the way.