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Thanks! Our initial constellation will be 24 satellites, which will enable 2-3 revisits per day to areas of interest.

We used a drone to capture this image at our representative resolution (10cm), but it only captures in JPEG so there could be compression artifacts from that. The image on the right is a 1/3 downsampled version to show 30cm resolution.

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So your sample image, isn’t real?

Which reminds me, wouldn’t drones always be able to capture better imagery due to lower altitude? It’s my understanding Google maps is all done from aircraft on the higher resolutions.

It's generally harder to keep drones aloft 24/7 though. Also then subject to more stringent airspace laws.

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