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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

yes, it sure would be an accelerator.

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

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I figure the market for "low" resolution imagery will be destroyed when Starlink decides to add something like a fixed wide angle 100 megapixel cameras to every satellite. There are a lot of options for what to do from there, but getting continuous global imagery would suddenly be possible.

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

Can we maybe focus on the technology and not ideology?

Engineers play one of the most pivotal roles in war and loss of human life, and many don't even realize it. Something that needs to be reflected on more.

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

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I figure the market for "low" resolution imagery will be destroyed when Starlink decides to add something like a fixed wide angle 100 megapixel cameras to every satellite. There are a lot of options for what to do from there, but getting continuous global imagery would suddenly be possible.

Capture the Earth's surface state from giant sphere "pano", run simulations off of it

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we maybe focus on the technology and not ideology?

Engineers play one of the most pivotal roles in war and loss of human life, and many don't even realize it. Something that needs to be reflected on more.

On reflection, if my side doesn't militarize space then another side will dominate and make the rules. Might as well work with my side on it and also get scientific advancements out of it. Even in the advanced age of Star Trek we needed defensive capabilities.

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

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I figure the market for "low" resolution imagery will be destroyed when Starlink decides to add something like a fixed wide angle 100 megapixel cameras to every satellite. There are a lot of options for what to do from there, but getting continuous global imagery would suddenly be possible.

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 market?). But the rumor in the industry is that they’re comin for everything. And they did just announce a new satellite platform for hosting payloads (including optical).

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

Can we maybe focus on the technology and not ideology?

> Can we maybe focus on the technology and not ideology?

It's not ideology to see that applying certain inventions in particular domains will bring more negative consequences than in the others. Even if former are more lucrative than later. It's ideology to follow hyper-capitalistic approach and pretend that only profit matters.

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

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I figure the market for "low" resolution imagery will be destroyed when Starlink decides to add something like a fixed wide angle 100 megapixel cameras to every satellite. There are a lot of options for what to do from there, but getting continuous global imagery would suddenly be possible.

Planet Labs captures ~30 megapixel images (usually though, these are quoted in terms of pixel size, eg. 5 meters per pixel) and has hundreds of satellites on orbit.

I don't know about Digital Globe's capabilities, but they are also in this business as are others.

Would 100 megapixels make a big difference in availability?

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