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		peterfirefly on Feb 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink The Sentinel satellites ARE the Copernicus program(me). Why are the EU spy sats, sorry, totally-not-spy-sats, so poor and so few compared to what the US has?

threeseed on Feb 19, 2023 [–]

a) Copernicus program is bigger than just the satellites themselves.

b) What does a meaningless comparison with the US have to do with whether launching a bunch of extra satellites is considered a moonshot or not ?

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