http://www.spacepolitics.com/2014/04/17/intel-community-willing-to-allow-higher-resolution-commercial-imagery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=intel-community-willing-to-allow-higher-resolution-commercial-imagery Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2014/04/17/intel-community-willing-to-allow-higher-resolution-commercial-imagery/#comment-479493 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:06:50 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=7015#comment-479493 There are nearly 200 countries in the world, not all are friends. Only a few have their own satellites.

]]> http://www.spacepolitics.com/2014/04/17/intel-community-willing-to-allow-higher-resolution-commercial-imagery/#comment-479430 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:01:45 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=7015#comment-479430 The Russians have their own satellites. The only people we are concealing information from are ourselves.

]]> http://www.spacepolitics.com/2014/04/17/intel-community-willing-to-allow-higher-resolution-commercial-imagery/#comment-479424 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:21:51 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=7015#comment-479424 It is not intelligence agencies that have to worry about higher resolution commercial imagery – their secret stuff is inside. It is people in army bases, naval bases and military airfields.

]]> http://www.spacepolitics.com/2014/04/17/intel-community-willing-to-allow-higher-resolution-commercial-imagery/#comment-479400 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:44:06 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=7015#comment-479400 The US government is an amusing leviathan. The horse was out of the barn a long time ago. Any restriction on image resolution is ludicrous.

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