*Favela satellites.
https://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom?currentPage=2
*The missing aspect here is a satellite "stuffed animal" or a satellite "squelette." These would be satellites formerly owned by defeated and extinct military forces, or commercial satellites that failed and were never formally completed, so that their skeletons can be occupied by space-squatters.
*Fantastic story here. A ne plus ultra of cyberpunk high-tech lowlife.