Mostly because they just use the FVEY assets already.
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777@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
You mean to say we didn’t have these already? I just assumed we did honestly. Were we just buying time from commercial vendors?
randombullet@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Person264@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
Seems like it. SSTL (who made this satellite) do loads of earth observation stuff already so the MOD probably just bought time on those satellites like you said.