Mostly because they just use the FVEY assets already.
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777@lemmy.ml 10 months 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 10 months ago
Person264@lemmings.world 10 months 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.