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Is there even enough room in the marketplace for all of these upstart satellite imagers?


The price is going down by 1-2 orders of magnitude. Things are looking bleak for Astrium, Digital Globe etc. The sector has long needed an adjustment.

But whether space imaging is going to be worth anything for civil markets is questionable. If drone imaging can deliver less than $1 per acre then the satellites are going to lose. Hardly anyone is going to pay $0.01 per acre for 1m GSD when you can get 1cm GSD for $1.00.




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