Maxar's Open Satellite Feed

Re:Maxar's Open Satellite Feed by LeifCarrotson on Monday November 13, 2023 @08:05PM (#38257542)

Are they really broadcasting the imagery back down from the satellite without encryption?

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Re:Maxar's Open Satellite Feed by ge96 on Monday November 13, 2023 @08:24PM (#38257721)

I should have specified, I was referring to the NOAA ones that are public

These images are super far away though eg. entire Earth so idk

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Re:Maxar's Open Satellite Feed by swanee on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:02PM (#38258493)

I will add for the U.S. based satellites the disc images are from the NOAA GOES sats which are in a Geosynchronous orbit but there is also the NOAA-15/18/19 which are lower in a Sun-synchronous orbit and you get a strip as it passes over.

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Re:Maxar's Open Satellite Feed by jandrese on Monday November 13, 2023 @09:07PM (#38258048)

They're publicly funded public data. But the images are mostly only useful for tracking cloud cover.

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