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ImPostingOnHNtoday at 2:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

Many countries do not have ready access to satellite imagery, much less realtime satellite imagery. Iran, for example.


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rtkwetoday at 6:12 PM

Anyone with a big enough checkbook can rent 12 50 centimeter resolution overflights a day from Planet Labs. Their 1.3m resolution is maybe enough to track it in decently cooperative weather given enough compute spend.

https://www.planet.com/pulse/12x-rapid-revisit-announcement/

paxystoday at 2:34 PM

Iran is being fed intelligence by Russia, so they definitely have that info.

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