u/dimitristhis

We track hurricanes from space, we watch wildfires grow in realtime, we can zoom into someone’s backyard from orbit. But a rocket, one of the biggest, loudest most expensive things humans have ever built leaves the planet, and the footage we get looks like it was filmed on a flip phone from 2006. Now some of these satellites are as large as a school bus, some have cameras so sharp they can read a license plate from space. Companies like Planet Labs have over 500 satellites doing nothing but taking pictures of earth every single day. Spacex has launched thousands of starlink satellites. The European space agency has their own fleet. China has hundreds more. The US military, nobody even knows the number. So, if even one of those satellites were pointed at the right direction at the right moment, and statistically with the 15,000 of them flying around overhead, at least a few of them had to be, why don’t we have clean un-interrupted footage of Artemis 2 leaving earth from space? Not shaky ground footage. Not a news broadcast cutting between camera angles every three seconds. Real footage. Satellite footage from space. Looking down. Watching the rocket go up. Where is it.