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Re:Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk by TheCraiggers on Thursday July 17, 2014 @01:05PM (#8048745)
You think those imaging satellites aren't constantly recording everything they see and sending it somewhere? Especially in and around such a hot area as the Ukraine, I'm sure there is near-constant surveillance.

It would be a waste of resources otherwise.

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Re:Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Thursday July 17, 2014 @01:32PM (#8048920)
Except there probably aren't quite enough satellites to always have one over that area? Plus, yeah, downlink bandwidth probably wouldn't be sufficient anyway.
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Re:Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk by clarky07 on Thursday July 17, 2014 @03:26PM (#8049646)
surely Ukraine is a priority right now though, right?
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Re:Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Thursday July 17, 2014 @07:30PM (#8050847)
And how does that increase the number of satellites in orbit or the available downlink bandwidth?
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