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The distance to the earth might have been coincidentally the same as the distance to the other satellite. LEO isn't that far up, the one that took the photo was
by throwaway8503 3y ago
The distance to the earth might have been coincidentally the same as the distance to the other satellite. LEO isn't that far up, the one that took the photo was only ~600km AGL.
- wkat4242 3y agoBut then the resolution can't have been that high, or the other satellite would have been as big as the ISS. It must have been a lot closer than earth.
- throwaway8503 3y agoThey've got 0.3m on World View 3, more than enough for what was shown in the gif Edit: you're probably right, actually.. the silver square on the lower section of landsat 8 is ~1.5m high (guessing from the image on wikipedia), so there should only be ~5-6 pixels for it, but there are clearly more.
- ThisIsTheWay 3y agoThe sample distance (SSD) is noted on the GIF, and ranges between 6.5 and 4.6 cm for the images shown here.
- caf 3y agoThe range to the imaged satellite is overlaid on the images - it's between 90km and 130km over the sequence.