How Low Can Satellites Go? Air Force Bets Very Low Earth Orbit Will Give It More Capabilities

Earlier this month, a small San Francisco-based startup called Earth Observant announced it had won a development contract with the Air Force’s AFWERX technology incubator to advance its design for a small, very low Earth orbit (VLEO) optical imaging satellite. Another small satellite development contract might not seem like a big deal given the many smallsats now in production (and in space) for communications, data and imaging purposes. More

(Source: Forbes - Aug 29)