Re:SpaceX can't broadcast Earth images because of a murky li...
by notahacker on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:00AM
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That's probably the most practical option, but even that distinction isn't necessarily straightforward in a launch video (and even the sort of 20m multispectral imagery that's freely made available to the entire world by multiple providers including NASA becomes more of a possible privacy/security issue if remote sensing operators were to permanently point their cameras at the same location). The regulation was likely drafted with a view to the future in an era where all satellite based EO had low spatial resolutions and processing techniques were in their infancy anyway.
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Re:SpaceX can't broadcast Earth images because of a murky li...
by Dylan16807 on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:16AM
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> even that distinction isn't necessarily straightforward in a launch video
From what I understand the trouble point is when they hit orbit, and by then they're plenty far away to meet the cutoff.