SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes

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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