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“Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

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Re: “Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

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This guy is really drinking the space militarization Kool aid that the SDA is churning out. It's sad to see another young generation getting sucked into the military industrial complex

in Earth observation, defence money is ultimately the one funding your ventures.

Re: “Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

#23

So sat-to-sat connectivity will enable 1) software updates on the sats so that you can do your post processing in space, 2) you can rapidly downlink in a parallel manner. Seems like a big step forward for the defense industry.

technically, downlink-while-imaging is not necessarily reliant on sat-to-sat networks, or did I miss something?

Re: “Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

#24

This guy is really drinking the space militarization Kool aid that the SDA is churning out. It's sad to see another young generation getting sucked into the military industrial complex

Can we maybe focus on the technology and not ideology?

Re: “Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

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Remote sensing is severely limited by latency and throughput of the downlink, as it needs to push mountains of data in a tiny window when the satellite is passing over the ground station once in a while. "Internet in Space" will help to remove (or reduce) this limitation.

In a conflict with a near-peer adversary, the attrition rate on reconnaissance satellites in LEO is going to be high. So, it will also be important for satellites to downlink their data quickly before they get knocked out.

Re: “Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

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post #3

Joe is one of the most knowledgeable person in the world on satellite imagery. He’s a must read.

This author? According to his LinkedIn he's only been in the space industry for exactly 2 years. This article also reads as very superficial.

If you work in the space, he is one of the most well respected people.

Re: “Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

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post #23

So sat-to-sat connectivity will enable 1) software updates on the sats so that you can do your post processing in space, 2) you can rapidly downlink in a parallel manner. Seems like a big step forward for the defense industry.

technically, downlink-while-imaging is not necessarily reliant on sat-to-sat networks, or did I miss something?

I was just guessing at what he would write in part 2: if you can disseminate the data rapidly to a network of adjacent satellites, eventually one of those will be in view of the ground station, and if those satellites also have the high-throughput laser capability, then you can really downlink faster.

Re: “Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

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post #3

Joe is one of the most knowledgeable person in the world on satellite imagery. He’s a must read.

This author? According to his LinkedIn he's only been in the space industry for exactly 2 years. This article also reads as very superficial.

Stop snoopin and send me a connection request, George!

Re: “Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

#29

This guy is really drinking the space militarization Kool aid that the SDA is churning out. It's sad to see another young generation getting sucked into the military industrial complex

Can we maybe focus on the technology and not ideology?

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Re: “Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This author? According to his LinkedIn he's only been in the space industry for exactly 2 years. This article also reads as very superficial.

If you work in the space, he is one of the most well respected people.

he's at least very communicative and pedagogical, and has a refreshing view of EO. reading him, Aravind, and Payload (thanks for it) is a good way to set you up on what's going on in the space-based EO industry.
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