I know you touched on your experiences there, but the commercial model alone, you know, going to that resolution, what are your thoughts on there? Did users ultimately care or were we chasing vanity metrics? Not the right word, but at what point do you get to a certain resolution that is a good enough for some of the problems that we're trying to solve? Or is it really always chasing finders the finders, better finders, the better? How do you think about that?

Different criteria matter for different use cases, right? And so 10 centimeter imagery is absolutely, I think, necessary and valuable.

So I think that was kind of proven out.

And one of the things we're trying to prove out at Albedo was resolution really does matter.

There's a huge commercial market around aerial imagery, which is typically around 10 centimeters.

But it's usually limited by you have to fly over a place, right? So the defense intelligence value for 10 centimeter imagery is huge.

And then the other thing that didn't get as much play with Albedo, but was probably just as important, is they were also collecting two meter long wave infrared.

What is genuinely possible now from your point of view as you think about earth observation? Do you think we're using the available resources today, you know, setting common space aside just in terms of your deep background in earth observation and entrepreneurship? Do you think we're closer to solving these things? Do we have the tools today or do you think there's something that we're just missing in terms of connecting the pieces to really knock this out of the park?

Why is it that you say that people don't have enough access or certain groups don't have enough access? What's getting in their way?

Yeah, I would say there's two main drivers that keep, at least the users that we care about from getting access to this data.

Price cost is one thing.

And I think seeing these marketplaces like Skywatch and Skyfi making it more accessible is definitely great.

It's useful, but they still have a ton of licensing restrictions, right? So this is where you kind of have to be a little bit of an industry insider to understand all of the licensing and practices around that, which we're seeing changes in the commercial industry there also.

So Umbra, for example, makes its archives available under a Creative Commons license, but they're still a profit-driven company through their tasking model.

But that's unique in this world.

And maybe it's really difficult for them to work together given the circumstances.