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Can we receive the signal from these satellites ourselves like we can with the NOAA satellites?
by NietTim 7y ago
Can we receive the signal from these satellites ourselves like we can with the NOAA satellites?
- azernik 7y agoTelemetry, probably; imagery, definitely not. (They sell this imagery, it's not public information like NOAA data.)
- ivanhoe 7y agoDo you mean that imagery can't be received for some technical reason (like being encrypted) or that it would be illegal to save it as it's copyrighted?
- azernik 7y agoThe former - encryption is cheap and lost revenue is expensive.
- patrickyeon 7y agoTelemetry and command and control signals are also encrypted.
- NietTim 7y agoHere's an article with much more technical talk then I could quickly find on Planet.com's website about one of their first flocks: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/f/flock-1 https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missio... (only tonight have time to read it all)