<div dir="ltr">James,<div><br></div><div>NOAA requires a license for terrestrial imaging. Title 51 of the US code at <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/51">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/51</a></div><div>and Presidential Decision Directive NSC-23 at <a href="https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/12747">https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/12747</a><br></div><div>both include restrictions upon imaging.</div><div><br></div><div>They are concerned by things like high-resolution maps of Israel, which presumably would be used to bomb them.</div><div><br></div><div>I haven't read over the laws yet, but we'd have to understand them as part of any remote imaging mission. Whether or not a star finder could be restricted is dependent on both technical details and the law, yet to be studied.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks</div><div><br></div><div> Bruce</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Ground-Station <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute" target="_blank">ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I recently had a discussion with a couple of satellite builders (one of which was on the 50dollarsat project) and I asked what were the chances of building a 1 or 2u <div dir="auto">cubesat that had a small telescope with camera on it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One of the things that was brought up about that was that there is a fcc or DoD</div><div dir="auto">rule that prohibited cameras pointing away from the earth. I was told that it was out</div><div dir="auto">of concern that the U.S. didn't want anyone taking pictures of some super secret</div><div dir="auto">satellite either by accident or on purpose.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I haven't had the time to look it up and hadn't even thought of this until I read this thread.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Is this true or not?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">James W8ISS </div></div>
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