If we have sats that can read a license plate number from space and probably for many decades, I’m sure they know who planted it.
That's what we have admitted to and we've had that for quite a while.
You must remember, satellite resources are finite and VERY valuable. The problem with having a very tight focus is that it covers a very small area. We only go that tight when the target is very valuable, time sensitive, and we already have VERY good information about what we are going to find when we look there.
The first very high resolution photos I ever got to see were of the Severomorsk Disaster. The disaster was a deadly series of munitions fires that resulted in the detonation and destruction of large amounts of munitions that lasted from May 13 to 17, 1984, within the Okolnaya naval munitions depot, near the Severomorsk Naval Base (headquarters of the Northern Fleet of the Soviet Navy).
I was floored at both the quality of the photos and the extent of the destruction. I believe that this series of accidents, along with the Chernobyl RBMK reactor accident, materially contributed to the downfall of the Soviet Union.
SpyNavy
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)