To get the orbiting United Space Station to find Tomcat via camera was a solution that Tang Yue came up with due to his anxiety. It was his final straw to clutch at. In fact, the United Space Station wasn't suited for such work since it wasn't a spy satellite. It didn't have any high-precision optical observation equipment. To identify a vehicle of fewer than ten meters on the Martian surface, from a height of three to four hundred kilometers, would require American National Reconnaissance Office Keyhole satellites.
The United Space Station was once tasked with a Martian remote sensing and observation mission. It was equipped with a spectrum scanner and a synthetic-aperture radar, but this equipment was mainly used to sense and construct large swaths of geological landmarks. It wasn't capable of precisely determining a vehicle's location. The only high-precision camera onboard the United Space Station was inside the Dawn module and was likely damaged along with the module.
