[kefs]

From a previous comment of mine:

Gorgon Stare was featured in PBS Nova Rise of the Drones (2013)

Skip to 30m mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_T45UG1-o?t=30m29s

[MR4D]

Wow - I’d heard about the capability before, but actually seeing it in video is like watching Terminator - fun but eerie at the same time.

Thanks for the great link (and also for automatically setting it to the 30 minute mark).

[brohee]

They say that they acquire one million terrabyte a day? Was it a journalist mistake? It sounds like really a lot for 2013, the budgets must be huge...

[jandrewrogers]

The raw storage density of a high-end sensing drone was approaching a petabyte even back then, so it is a plausible number if you have a large drone fleet. This roughly matches available COTS flash storage in ultra-dense form factors at the time. Live streams are likely going to be an extract of the captured data but you can always pull the storage array when it lands.

[bronco21016]

I haven’t done any math on 1.8 billion pixel video feed but I agree. There’s not enough radio bandwidth even for one drone to beam down over a million TB/day.

[jcims]

There's also an excellent RadioLab episode about it:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/eye-sky

If you didn't worry about all of the potential for abuse, the ability it provides to help solve crime is pretty compelling.

[avip]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_T45UG1-o&t=30m29s