The GeoEye-1 satellite is the civilian satellite with the highest photographic sharpness launched so far
whose shape is reminiscent of a dish and its size is about ninety centimeters, are returned to the secondary mirror [B] which is about thirty centimeters in size, and are transferred through the central opening to the third mirror [C] which focuses the image and transfers it to the camera [D]."]![The light rays hit the main mirror [A], which is shaped like a cake and is about ninety centimeters in size, are returned to the secondary mirror [B], which is about thirty centimeters in size, and are passed through the central opening to the third mirror [C] which focuses the image and transfers it to the camera [D].](https://www.hayadan.org.il/images/content2/space/geoeye_parts.JPG "The light rays hit the main mirror [A], which is shaped like a cake and is about ninety centimeters in size, are returned to the secondary mirror [B], which is about thirty centimeters in size, and are passed through the central opening to the third mirror [C] which focuses the image and transfers it to the camera [D].")
An imaging satellite sharp for photographing the Earth and which will be able to photograph in detail the championship plate in a baseball game from space, was launched on Saturday from the US Air Force Base Vandenberg in central California.
The Delta 2 rocket, which carried the satellite, was launched on Saturday, at 11:50 local time (16:50 p.m. Israel time). The satellite separated from the launcher a few minutes after launch and will continue alone in a polar orbit. General Dynamics, the manufacturer of the satellite, says that the cost of building and launching GeoEye-1 is about half a billion dollars.
The satellite will circle the earth in an orbit at an altitude of 680 km more than a dozen times a day. Every day I can take color photos of an area the size of the state of New Mexico or a black and white photo of a huge state like Texas. In black-only mode, the satellite will be able to distinguish objects on Earth, with a diameter of 40 centimeters.
The encrypted images are transmitted to the ground stations 40 times a day, on radio waves. After GeoEye assembles the strips into a complete image, they are sent to clients, which include Google Earth, governments that have (no or almost no) tracking satellites, and the US National Spatial Geography and Intelligence Agency - GeoEye's main client.
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His skin is Hasidim, his skin
The rules are already here~and now
Change
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At this point they deserve all the credit they have earned. And with great credit. (the genius of the right decentralization).
Google these. I'm sure this is just their opening shot on space and its applications.
You have to read their book to understand.
Childhood with megalomaniacs with genius and much, much too much free money.
Will be interesting
No Google sent the satellite,
With all due respect to the WEB company, it has neither the knowledge nor the ability to send a satellite into space, the overall intention here is that Google will be a relatively large consumer of the satellite, through the satellite company that owns it of course..
Kudos to Google, a company that arose not many years ago and has already launched a satellite into space, which only strengthens my knowledge of Google.