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by m2fkxy 722 days ago
also, by the physics of synthetic aperture radar, UMBRA (or any other satellite operator for that matter) can only collect 16 centimetres data at an angle equal or greater than ~45 degrees off-nadir (and for UMBRA, less than ~60 degrees off-nadir). this further restricts the footprint of feasible data collection.