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It's cherry-picked, but it's a combination of commercial tasking and discretionary tasking. There isn't much to read into in terms of the distribution, it's just one person's best …

Wow, that's a cool idea. I bet you absolutely can. When you image a ship broadside, it gets projected onto the surface in a flattened way we call "layover" - here's an example of h…

If anyone has questions about SAR as a tool for tracking human activity - movement of ships or otherwise - I'm happy to answer questions. Mark's work here makes great use of our op…

I’m personally really worried. It doesn’t bother me when I hear my neighbor flying his drone. And I never notice the Cessna survey planes overhead. But god forbid, on a clear day a…

Absolutely brutal for the SkyFi team trying to have a relaxing Saturday afternoon - keep up the good work, you nuts.

Best comment in the thread, I knew about Onyx but nothing more than the Wikipedia page (hardly anything)

Agree with you! Fun fast: the largest US satellite imagery provider, Maxar, was founded by the technical program lead for Brilliant Pebbles. It’s a small world and history rhymes.

I can’t comment on Griffin or the history of SDA, but proliferated LEO targets are much harder to take out with an ASAT than a small number of MEO or GEO satellites that are practi…

I hope so. I wrote a whole article about it: https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/open-all-of-the-satellite... Even Maxar is starting to deeply discount old imagery via their ARD pro…

> How do see the chances for other competitors to be able to catch up with SpaceX/Starlink? I like to remind people that it’s actually SpaceX who is still catching up to legacy pro…

Will go into more detail on why I believe that in part II but you are spot on.

It’s a dual-use technology, and while my job is to focus the commercial half of the equation, I’m not ashamed to support the US military and intelligence communities, either.

Convenient

Could be. I still think the juice won’t be worth the squeeze (is there an example in the history of comms satellites where they felt it was worth going after the much smaller EO ma…

My name is Joe Morrison, and I’m ready to be roasted on here again. Please feel free to ask me anything or challenge any of what I’ve written!

Stop snoopin and send me a connection request, George!

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Information wants to be free, as they say

It is!

You are correct. I’m talking mainly about low Earth orbit satellites. There are some LEO weather satellites or concepts - Tomorrow.io is a notable one.

Thank you for sharing that, I find it very validating. Sometimes it’s nerve racking to publish an opinion piece like this when I know I am extrapolating from very limited and biase…

Very interesting, thank you for sharing that!