JF Mezei wrote on Sun, 1 Apr 2018
20:09:35 -0400:

On 2018-04-01 19:20, Jeff Findley wrote:

I know it's April 1st, but no, that's bull****. NOAA is the agency in
charge of issuing permits for earth observation satellites. This has
nothing to do with those idiot flat earthers.


But if I I am a Singapore company launching a satellite from Kouru on an
Arianne, why do I need a permit from a US bureaucracy (NOAA) to have a
camera on my satellite?

Once I get orbital slot from the UN agency (forget its name), and the
spectrum for the uplinks, why should a country have a say on what I do
with the satellite?

When the USA sent the Shuttle STRM mission, did it need permission from
every nation in the world to "radar" all of the ground on the planet?

When an astronaut on the ISS takes a picture while over Italy, does he
need permission from Italy to take that picture?


We were talking about a US company (SpaceX) launching from the US.



Bull****. The US has jurisdiction over what its citizens, and its
corporations, do in space.


As it did with encryption, preventing export of US built encryption
because us military felt US encryption couldn't be beat.


The US military has nothing to do with that. It seems your ignorance
knows no bounds.


It appears to me that this NOAA rule is anachronistic and has been
rendered laughable with advancement of commercial launches, satelite
imagery that has become "open" with Google and others.


Google doesn't take satellite imagery. You might want to look up who
the primary source of commercial imagery is.


except for the bit where the cameras are so low resolution (in terms of
pixel size on the surface of the earth) that it's laughable.


As it was explained to me here, stage IIs have finite lifetime after
which, they are dead. inert. In today's world, this is not considered a
"satellite" even though in the 1950s cold war era, early surveillance
satellite would go up, take pictures and fall back after an orbit or two
so the analogue film could be recovered and developped. And those image
likely had resolutions comparable to what a GoPro can do today.


It's still a satellite until it comes down.


But in today's standards, you would only call something a "satellite" if
it remained active for at least a few months if not years.


Bull****.


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