Google's “supersatellite” took the first shot
The GeoEye-1, which provides a resolution of 41 cm / pixel, which is the highest figure for all existing commercial satellites, made its first frame .
The picture was taken on October 7, 2008 at 12:00 EDT from a height of 680 km at a speed of 7.6 km / s.
It should be noted: although Google is the project sponsor and has an Internet company logo on board, however, the main investor of the project and the “consumer” of information is the US intelligence agency (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency). It paid about $ 250 million of about half a billion dollars in project costs (this is strange, because the Americans have much better quality satellites that can even photograph the headlines in the hands of an ordinary passerby on Red Square).
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Despite investments from scouts, satellite photos will be laid out freely on the Internet. True, with a small limitation: the maximum resolution for the Internet under American law is 50 cm per pixel. Google has an exclusive contract for the publication of these images.
The second satellite GeoEye-2 with a resolution of 25 cm per pixel will be launched in 2011 or 2012. However, if the legislation does not change, users will not notice any progress.
The picture was taken on October 7, 2008 at 12:00 EDT from a height of 680 km at a speed of 7.6 km / s.
It should be noted: although Google is the project sponsor and has an Internet company logo on board, however, the main investor of the project and the “consumer” of information is the US intelligence agency (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency). It paid about $ 250 million of about half a billion dollars in project costs (this is strange, because the Americans have much better quality satellites that can even photograph the headlines in the hands of an ordinary passerby on Red Square).
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Despite investments from scouts, satellite photos will be laid out freely on the Internet. True, with a small limitation: the maximum resolution for the Internet under American law is 50 cm per pixel. Google has an exclusive contract for the publication of these images.
The second satellite GeoEye-2 with a resolution of 25 cm per pixel will be launched in 2011 or 2012. However, if the legislation does not change, users will not notice any progress.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/41945/
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