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Re:Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? by wongarsu on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:57PM (#27188356)
They could do something like Sentinel's 10m/px, but looking at those images [1] I don't see the advantage of updating that more often than the once every few days we already have from Sentinel.

To make near-realtime interesting you need something closer to 1m/px where you can clearly make out cars. But at that point the optics and camera take more mass than a normal star link satellite. They would become earth observation satellites with an internet uplink, not the other way around.

1: https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/

Re:Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? by tpmx on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:08PM (#27188482)
Yeah, I guess it would require a breakthrough in optics/lenses to become feasible. Sentinel-2 is ~1000 kg, and each Starlink satellite is approx 250 kg.