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> at least one private company seemed to have stopped taking high-resolution pictures of The Line’s site sometime in March. It's almost as if something happene
by T-A 4y ago
> at least one private company seemed to have stopped taking high-resolution pictures of The Line’s site sometime in March.
It's almost as if something happened in March which caused Maxar to focus on some other area of the world.
https://blog.maxar.com/for-a-better-world/2022/aviation-week-names-maxar-a-2022-laureate-award-winner https://blog.maxar.com/for-a-better-world/2022/aviation-week...
- dogma1138 4y agoCan private earth observing satellites change orbits for full mission retasking? I would have assumed they only have enough fuel for maintaining orbit and station keeping and their coverage areas are pretty much static from the point they are inserted into their operational orbit.
- T-A 4y agoMaxar says it covers "60% of Earth’s surface monthly" [1]. But it's one thing to fly over a place, another to allocate bandwidth, compute and analysts to beam down, process and analyze images of it. [1] https://www.maxar.com/constellation https://www.maxar.com/constellation