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The operators of most of those satellites for the US, which I find most people haven't actually heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Int
by xxpor 5y ago
The operators of most of those satellites for the US, which I find most people haven't actually heard of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligen...
Like you mentioned, they do use their capabilities for some things other than just GEOINT:
>In addition to using GEOINT for U.S. military and intelligence efforts, NGA provides assistance during natural and man-made disasters, aids in security planning for major events such as the Olympic Games,[9] disseminates maritime safety information,[10] and gathers data on climate change.[11]
- m2fkxy 5y agoThe NRO would be actually the operator. NGA takes care of exploiting the data
- xxpor 5y agoAh shoot, you're right, I totally forgot. It does make me wonder what the NGA does with a ~5 billion dollar budget then, in my head most it was allocated to new sats. Other than buy approximately 10 3080s I mean ;)
- m2fkxy 5y agoGood point... those 10 3080s sure would be useful for the ML stuff they probably do, hehe. Also, probably going towards buying a lot of third-party commercial data.