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Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes by Geee on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:23PM (#26393043)
Do we have information whether Starlink satellites have cameras on-board? I was just wondering one day that it would make sense to use the satellites itself to build real-time maps.

Tesla cars are already connected through 4G/5G (when there's coverage) and they also store video feed in their memory, which they upload when the car connects to Wifi.

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Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes by txlpo78 on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:32PM (#26393133)
Almost certainly not. AFAIK the technology to do street-level imagery from satellites is still mostly only on government spy satellites, and certainly isn’t cheap enough to put on thousands of nearly-disposable sats. The type of imagery you see from Google Maps is taken from airplanes.
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Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes by Geee on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:04PM (#26393965)
There's a company called Planet that offers daily satellite images with down to 50cm resolution. https://www.planet.com
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Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes by maccam94 on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:39PM (#26393726)
The satellite imagery is from Google's Keyhole satellites. But the bird's eye view zoom levels are from aircraft.
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Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes by sidpatil on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:46PM (#26394832)
I know this is true for Bing Maps, but I thought Google Maps used photogrammetry or LIDAR to create a synthetic 3D view.
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