World's Highest-resolution Commercial Satellite

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 13:21 in Astronomy & Space

Since the early 1960s, super powerful spy satellites have been the stuff of the military and intelligence communities. Now two U.S. companies have launched commercial imaging satellites that offer the same sort of space-based images of the Earth to the public. One of these companies recently launched the highest-resolution commercial imaging satellite in the world.

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