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Re:Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photo... by kfrzcode on Monday July 20, 2020 @07:16PM (#23902883)
Is it theoretically, and practically possible for a private company to task a satellite with this level of latency/detail? Are there laws/regulations in this regard? Or is it more a technical/financial barrier?
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Re:Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photo... by netsharc on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @05:25AM (#23905484)
When they were looking for the missing Malaysian airliner, there were "fresh" (I guess days old) satellite images for people to look through, although the detail level was not that great.

I think a commercial satellite imaging company supplied the images for free.

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Re:Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photo... by neave on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:26PM (#23903259)
Planet Labs do this (planet.com) but $$$
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