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But then the resolution can't have been that high, or the other satellite would have been as big as the ISS. It must have been a lot closer than earth.


The range to the imaged satellite is overlaid on the images - it's between 90km and 130km over the sequence.


They've got 0.3m on World View 3, more than enough for what was shown in the gif

Edit: you're probably right, actually.. the silver square on the lower section of landsat 8 is ~1.5m high (guessing from the image on wikipedia), so there should only be ~5-6 pixels for it, but there are clearly more.


The sample distance (SSD) is noted on the GIF, and ranges between 6.5 and 4.6 cm for the images shown here.




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