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They likely would for the kind of stuff they're planning.
It's not necessarily imaging as in optics. Could be OPIR, encrypted comms, space to space ASAT, or any number of other things besides just earth imaging.
I assume the hard part here is the deployment of thousands of low orbit satellites at a rapid rate, not the imaging. The government surely already has the imaging tech, it's getting a swarm of satellites up there what's no other company has proven able to do.
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