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Why is there never enough room on satellites to hold all the equipment needed?

Why can a satellite run infrared and other forms of data collecting equipment and stream live results back for the public, but not take photos or video? I am guessing there is never enough room to ...
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Why does the Curiosity rover camera image resolution have "milliradians" as a unit?

NASA's published specs for the Curiosity rover cameras says that the image resolution is in milliradians per pixel. Which is odd because image resolution is measured in physical size units, i.e. ...
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