On July 24 the EU granted a US request to delay Copernicus (Sentinel-1 & Sentinel-2) satellite image (already degraded to low-res) release over the Gulf to limit visibility of damage in the US bases for OSINT.https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2026/07/24/eu-grants-us-request-to-delay-satellite-images-releaseDuring the 2026 Iran war, US commercial satellite firms (e.g., Planet Labs) imposed delays/blackouts on high-res imagery of ME conflict zones, often at US govt request, officially: to hinder adversary targeting, unofficially: to hide scale of destruction.https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/03/15/open-source-intelligence-shuts-downEuropean Copernicus Sentinel-2 optical and Sentinel-1 SAR data remain key free tools for damage proxy mapping (e.g., via Bellingcat tools), but quality/resolution has been degraded or delayed in areas like the Red Sea/Gulf, reducing real-time OSINT visibility of strikes on US bases.https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2026/04/07/tool-damage-assessment-destruction-sentinel-satellite-imagery-iran-us-gulf/This shifts transparency backward, complicating independent verification of Iranian damage claims (hundreds structures hit/destroyed already) vs official US reports describing the war on Iran as a success/victory.https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/06/iran-us-bases-satellite-images/Pic-rel: Upper photo: Sentinel-2 pic (deliberately degraded to low-res) showing destructio to weapon depot hit in King Faisal Air Base, Jordan, July 22, 2026 - even such photos now will be delayed/censored. Lower pic: high-resolution image of exactly the same US ammunition depot (Iranian media, Chinese satellite imagery)
>>539585924>Amerimutt terrorists are heavily censoring their own losses and airdefense failures while making evidently false claims about losses on the opposing side>news
How does this even matter if Iran is allegedly getting Chinese satellite intelligence?
>>539588424It matters for the dollar. The less world knows about US defeats, and the more about US victories, the bigger faith in dollar
>>539588424It's not about helping iran, it's about hiding the losses from (you)
>>539588424Thats why the stated reason is obviously false. Iranians aren't using google maps for targeting. Its to give a few days window to sweep the place and throw up some cardboard walls
>>539585924it makes sense.china wasn't even trying to feign neutrality in how they revealed western assets in the area until they had access cut.
>>539588424chinese satellites aren't as high resolution generally.they have the gaofen satellites which do sub-metre resolutionwestern satellites have published capability of ~30cm res.
>>539590303China is rapidly closing the gap. Gaofen-7 and Jilin-1 Gaofen offer 0.5 m resolution.
>>539590303MizarVision owns literally zero satellites. It feeds imagery from all available satellites : Western, Chinese, Russian etc. They do only AI refining and AI description. It is a tiny startup hiring few people
>>539590303>>539590906BTW, just found out that China has already launched 20 cm resolution satellites recently. Jilin-1 Gaofen 05B (Nov 2024) - 20 cm, surpassing 30 cm.
>>539591370https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3286734/chinas-gaofen-05b-commercial-satellite-pushing-limits-hi-res-imaging-experts
