“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery Industry

Re:“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery ... by orbital-decay on Sunday January 01, 2023 @01:54PM (#34209415)

Remote sensing is severely limited by latency and throughput of the downlink, as it needs to push mountains of data in a tiny window when the satellite is passing over the ground station once in a while. "Internet in Space" will help to remove (or reduce) this limitation.

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Re:“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery ... by nradov on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:29PM (#34209834)

In a conflict with a near-peer adversary, the attrition rate on reconnaissance satellites in LEO is going to be high. So, it will also be important for satellites to downlink their data quickly before they get knocked out.

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Re:“Internet in Space” Will Transform the Satellite Imagery ... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:09PM (#34210311)

> will also be important for satellites to downlink their data quickly before they get knocked out

Sensor attrition is equally hedged by rapid downlink as rapid offloading, e.g. to a safe satellite.

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