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See The Satellite That May Be Monitoring Nigerian Elections From The Sky

The United States' newest spy satellite will finally get off the ground this weekend, if all goes according to plan.

The NROL-71 spacecraft is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday (Jan. 19) at 2:05 p.m. EST (1905 GMT; 11:05 a.m. local California time), ULA representatives announced yesterday (Jan. 15).

You can watch the launch here at Space.com, courtesy of ULA, or directly via the company.

ULA had originally targeted early December for NROL-71's liftoff, but bad weather and technical issues pushed the launch back multiple times. The most recent attempt, on Dec. 19, was nixed because of a slight hydrogen leak on the Delta IV Heavy — an issue that has taken several weeks to resolve..

https://www.space.com/43027-spy-satellite-nrol-71-launch-saturday.html

What can it See?

Companies want to launch satellites that can see a phone in your hand from space

If you've ever used Google Earth to zoom in on an aerial view of your house, then you know that the level of detail you can see is spooky.
Regardless, satellite imaging technology continues to get better and better. Not long ago we measured satellite image resolution in meters; now it's down to centimeters.

Last year the US government relaxed its restrictions on commercial satellite imagery. Satellite companies can now legally distribute photos at about 25-centimeter resolution — enough to clearly make out a mailbox and four times as detailed as the previous 50-centimeter restriction.

The satellite company DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 and WorldView-3 satellites, for example, are so powerful the government won't allow the company to release some of the images, according to Slate.

The newest US spy satellites, meanwhile, can distinguish objects less than 10 centimeters across, the BBC reports. This is less than the length of some smartphones and sharp enough to zoom in on someone's head. (Although images of either would appear blobby at that resolution.)

If you've ever used Google Earth to zoom in on an aerial view of your house, then you know that the level of detail you can see is spooky.
Regardless, satellite imaging technology continues to get better and better. Not long ago we measured satellite image resolution in meters; now it's down to centimeters.

Last year the US government relaxed its restrictions on commercial satellite imagery. Satellite companies can now legally distribute photos at about 25-centimeter resolution — enough to clearly make out a mailbox and four times as detailed as the previous 50-centimeter restriction.

The satellite company DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 and WorldView-3 satellites, for example, are so powerful the government won't allow the company to release some of the images, according to Slate.

The newest US spy satellites, meanwhile, can distinguish objects less than 10 centimeters across, the BBC reports. This is less than the length of some smartphones and sharp enough to zoom in on someone's head. (Although images of either would appear blobby at that resolution.)

The US National Reconnaissance Office has a whole web of spy satellites in place. The next generation will start launching in 2018, and could include satellites with even more powerful resolutions, infrared sensors to peer through smoke, and electro-optical hardware, which can spot objects that absorb or emit electromagnetic energy.

DigitalGlobe is now selling images at about 30-centimeter resolution, according to a company brochure, but it's already pushing to have the commercial restrictions relaxed even further from 25 centimeters down to 10 centimeters. Google and government groups like the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which used satellite imagery to help track down Osama bin Laden, are regular DigitalGlobe customers, according to the website.

However, Google recently bought its own satellite company called Skybox. It doesn't have satellites as sharp as DigitalGlobe's, since its resolution is a little better than 1 meter, according to the company's website. But it sounds like Google isn't worried about competing with DigitalGlobe, and it doesn't want to invade anyone's privacy (which it has been accused of at least once before on a different project).

As Skybox founder Dan Berkenstock put it during a TED Talk:

From our own computer simulations we quickly found that one-meter [resolution] really was the minimum viable product to be able to see the drivers of our global economy. For the first time being able to count the ships and cars and shipping containers and trucks that move around our world on a daily basis while conveniently still not being able to see individuals.

So while Google can't yet zoom in on your face, DigitalGlobe is lobbying for an image resolution that would make that possible for anyone willing to pay for it — as long as they aren't a threat to US national defense and security.

Get the latest Google stock price here.

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Copyright 2019.

https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-image-resolution-keeps-improving-2015-10?IR=T

Hahaha

Like for Savior Atiku and share for Dullard Buhari
Zombies keep off

Mind you naija can defile anything.

hisgrace090:
Mind you naija can defile anything.

Nigerians get brains but not the technology

So we no save again. Why this western world still take us as a fool.

It cant be this one.

ATIKU DON WIN THIS ELECTION

INSHA ALLAH AMIN..


IF BUHARI WINS.....
PETROL PRICE WILL BE INCREASED TO #220
They have also planned to reduce fuel price to #140 before the election and increase it to #220 after the election so that more money would be diverted through fuel subsidy.
BUHARI WILL GIVE MORE CONTRACTS TO HIS RELATIVE
More contracts would be awarded to his relatives and he has asked them to create more account so they can store more money for him there during his last rule.
All this was revealed to me by a relative of Buhari.
Watch out Nigerians, Buhari second tenure will be hell. I voted fore Buhari in 2015 but he is a big disappointment.

They now have satellite to monitor our votes right.but can't help us retrieve our stolen common wealth in their country.aiding our wicked elites who have continually reduced us to the level of lacks of basic life expectancy.they couldn't assist on the fight against terrorism plaguing right now.what a wicked schemes against the black nation

Can you compare this satellite with the omnipresent, all-seeing God?

He will oversee the affairs of this great nation that the devil is bent on keeping under.

Good. America is determined to send Bubu back to Daura

Tell Buhari that is the grand patron of Boko Haram. Una never see anything

Back to Daura

netjoe:
They now have satellite to monitor our votes right.but can't help us retrieve our stolen common wealth in their country.aiding our wicked elites who have continually reduced us to the level of lacks of basic life expectancy.they couldn't assist on the fight against terrorism plaguing right now.what a wicked schemes against the black nation

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See The Satellite That May Be Monitoring Nigerian Elections From The Sky

The United States' newest spy satellite will finally get off the ground this weekend, if all goes according to plan.

The NROL-71 spacecraft is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday (Jan. 19) at 2:05 p.m. EST (1905 GMT; 11:05 a.m. local California time), ULA representatives announced yesterday (Jan. 15).

You can watch the launch here at Space.com, courtesy of ULA, or directly via the company.

ULA had originally targeted early December for NROL-71's liftoff, but bad weather and technical issues pushed the launch back multiple times. The most recent attempt, on Dec. 19, was nixed because of a slight hydrogen leak on the Delta IV Heavy — an issue that has taken several weeks to resolve..

https://www.space.com/43027-spy-satellite-nrol-71-launch-saturday.html

What can it See?

Companies want to launch satellites that can see a phone in your hand from space

If you've ever used Google Earth to zoom in on an aerial view of your house, then you know that the level of detail you can see is spooky.
Regardless, satellite imaging technology continues to get better and better. Not long ago we measured satellite image resolution in meters; now it's down to centimeters.

Last year the US government relaxed its restrictions on commercial satellite imagery. Satellite companies can now legally distribute photos at about 25-centimeter resolution — enough to clearly make out a mailbox and four times as detailed as the previous 50-centimeter restriction.

The satellite company DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 and WorldView-3 satellites, for example, are so powerful the government won't allow the company to release some of the images, according to Slate.

The newest US spy satellites, meanwhile, can distinguish objects less than 10 centimeters across, the BBC reports. This is less than the length of some smartphones and sharp enough to zoom in on someone's head. (Although images of either would appear blobby at that resolution.)

If you've ever used Google Earth to zoom in on an aerial view of your house, then you know that the level of detail you can see is spooky.
Regardless, satellite imaging technology continues to get better and better. Not long ago we measured satellite image resolution in meters; now it's down to centimeters.

Last year the US government relaxed its restrictions on commercial satellite imagery. Satellite companies can now legally distribute photos at about 25-centimeter resolution — enough to clearly make out a mailbox and four times as detailed as the previous 50-centimeter restriction.

The satellite company DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 and WorldView-3 satellites, for example, are so powerful the government won't allow the company to release some of the images, according to Slate.

The newest US spy satellites, meanwhile, can distinguish objects less than 10 centimeters across, the BBC reports. This is less than the length of some smartphones and sharp enough to zoom in on someone's head. (Although images of either would appear blobby at that resolution.)

The US National Reconnaissance Office has a whole web of spy satellites in place. The next generation will start launching in 2018, and could include satellites with even more powerful resolutions, infrared sensors to peer through smoke, and electro-optical hardware, which can spot objects that absorb or emit electromagnetic energy.

DigitalGlobe is now selling images at about 30-centimeter resolution, according to a company brochure, but it's already pushing to have the commercial restrictions relaxed even further from 25 centimeters down to 10 centimeters. Google and government groups like the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which used satellite imagery to help track down Osama bin Laden, are regular DigitalGlobe customers, according to the website.

However, Google recently bought its own satellite company called Skybox. It doesn't have satellites as sharp as DigitalGlobe's, since its resolution is a little better than 1 meter, according to the company's website. But it sounds like Google isn't worried about competing with DigitalGlobe, and it doesn't want to invade anyone's privacy (which it has been accused of at least once before on a different project).

As Skybox founder Dan Berkenstock put it during a TED Talk:

From our own computer simulations we quickly found that one-meter [resolution] really was the minimum viable product to be able to see the drivers of our global economy. For the first time being able to count the ships and cars and shipping containers and trucks that move around our world on a daily basis while conveniently still not being able to see individuals.

So while Google can't yet zoom in on your face, DigitalGlobe is lobbying for an image resolution that would make that possible for anyone willing to pay for it — as long as they aren't a threat to US national defense and security.

Get the latest Google stock price here.

Read the original article on Tech Insider.
Follow Tech Insider on Facebook and Twitter.
Copyright 2019.

https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-image-resolution-keeps-improving-2015-10?IR=T

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