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azernik
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Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day
Telemetry, probably; imagery, definitely not. (They sell this imagery, it's not public information like NOAA data.)
patrickyeon
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Telemetry and command and control signals are also encrypted.
ivanhoe
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Do you mean that imagery can't be received for some technical reason (like being encrypted) or that it would be illegal to save it as it's copyrighted?
azernik
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The former - encryption is cheap and lost revenue is expensive.
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