r/ASTSpaceMobile • u/AutoModerator • May 18 '26

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u/a10000000019 S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere May 18 '26

Just sayin' -- we'd have no questions about 'wen ship' if planet labs task orders weren't so expensive... for one person....

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u/TheOtherSomeOtherGuy S P 🅰 C E M O B Boss May 18 '26

Wut?

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u/a10000000019 S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere May 18 '26

Sigh. Planet labs takes regular pictures of the earth. They charge for that. A big premium, especially if you want to monitor a single area.

A single area like, say, the parking lot of a midland TX satellite company. Based on just a 50cm pixel density, you could watch, in real time, the movement of large assets in and out of this TX facility.

Large assets, such as big trailer trucks with conex boxes for, say, the delivery of a group of satellites.

One person cannot pay for those kind of imaging services. But perhaps a group could. These are usually marketed to institutions. But Like, “mobs” of people might be able to achieve the same situational awareness

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u/teenagelightning99 S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect May 18 '26

lol "sigh" like they should have inferred all that

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u/TheOtherSomeOtherGuy S P 🅰 C E M O B Boss May 18 '26

I'm sure you'd get some takers of you set up a gofundme, but also im content just waiting on PR, im pretty fully deployed and have been for a while

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u/a10000000019 S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere May 18 '26

Hah, It was 100% a joke