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Is this not the same problem high resolution spy satellites have? Seems like a fair bit of crossover at least?

• _alternator_ 1y ago
  Spy sats are more bandwidth and power constrained. For low earth, you also can’t usually offload data over the target.
  • NitpickLawyer 1y ago
    > For low earth, you also can’t usually offload data over the target. That capability is coming with starlink laser modules. They've already tested this on a dragon mission, and they have the links working between some satellite shells. So you'd be able to offload data from pretty much everywhere starlink has presence.
    • adgjlsfhk1 1y ago
      Vera Ruben is producing ~4gbps constantly. just dealing with the heat to send that much data is highly nontrivial.