Re:Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
by ericbarrett on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:07PM
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That's super interesting! I love this discussion. Would the satellite be that low though? 250 miles (400km) is still going to experience significant atmospheric drag. Fine for a cheap mass deployment like Starlink, but I'd expect an imaging satellite to be set up for a longer mission duration. Then again maybe the cost of additional mass for station-keeping is worth it for the imaging quality.
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Re:Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
by penagwin on Monday December 20, 2021 @03:16PM
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You can find a list of satellites here: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/satellite-database
According to the image on Google maps it was taken by Maxar. Maxar appears to have a few satellites, looks like 5 in geostationary orbit (~35,700km), 3 at about 400km and 1 at about 500km.