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fasterthanyours

10-13-2008, 06:58 AM

Pretty funny. Would be cool to do something like that here.

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/24/1646205.shtml

fasterthanyours

10-13-2008, 07:03 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickBird

What's amazing is the satellite was launched in 2001 with only 157GB of storage, probably flash storage. According to Wiki that's only enough for 57 pictures. So each High Res pic is 10GB, wow.

Also it only has enough fuel for 7 years, should be dying soon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldView-1
This one collects the Highest Res pics of all earth observing Satellites in orbit.