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by m2fkxy 1579 days ago
The NRO would be actually the operator. NGA takes care of exploiting the data
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xxpor 1578 days ago
Ah shoot, you're right, I totally forgot.

It does make me wonder what the NGA does with a ~5 billion dollar budget then, in my head most it was allocated to new sats. Other than buy approximately 10 3080s I mean ;)

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m2fkxy 1578 days ago
Good point... those 10 3080s sure would be useful for the ML stuff they probably do, hehe.

Also, probably going towards buying a lot of third-party commercial data.

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