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https://phys.org/news/2017-01-goes-satellite-images-earth.html
Since the GOES-16 satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral on November 19, scientists, meteorologists and ordinary weather enthusiasts have anxiously waited for the first photos from NOAA's newest weather satellite, GOES-16, formerly GOES-R.
The release of the first images today is the latest step in a new age of weather satellites. It will be like high-definition from the heavens.
The pictures from its Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument, built by Harris Corporation, show a full-disc view of the Western Hemisphere in high detail—at four times the image resolution of existing GOES spacecraft. The higher resolution will allow forecasters to pinpoint the location of severe weather with greater accuracy. GOES-16 can provide a full image of Earth every 15 minutes and one of the continental U.S. every five minutes, and scans the Earth at five times the speed of NOAA's current GOES imagers.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday January 25 2017, @06:48PM
In the mid 80s SPOT was selling optical orbital images with 10M resolution, so yeah.
SPOT is an ongoing program and the 6 and 7 twins are selling 1.5 M resolution. That's about 18 inches not fifteen meters or whatever.
If you're ever bored google up the owners of SPOT 7. It got sold to who to do what? Huh? Really? Now I've seen it all.
(Score: 1) by zugedneb on Wednesday January 25 2017, @07:23PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_%28satellite%29#SPOT_6_and_SPOT_7 [wikipedia.org]
In December 2014, SPOT 7 was sold to Azerbaijan's space agency Azercosmos, who renamed it Azersky.[5]
nothing suspicious then
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax