> At present, anybody with money can loft a satellite, and anybody with money can buy pictures from it, with no need to ask anybody's permission. Minor nit: Yo

> At present, anybody with money can loft a satellite, and anybody with money can buy pictures from it, with no need to ask anybody's permission. Minor nit: You need to ask permission of the country responsible for your space operations, if it chooses to regulate that. E.g. in the US, NOAA needs to sign off on any US-operated imaging. But generally doesn't care what the photographed countries think of it, although one could in principle imagine restrictions where the US feels it touches national security. (This was in the press a while back when SpaceX wasn't allowed to publish live feeds from one of their launches, because the right permits weren't in place)