A few years ago Ball Aerospace pulled a cute stunt
Ball Aerospace logo - from telestarlogistics blog (click to embiggen)
Using the QuickBird
0.6m telescope.
Note the white dashed lines on the tarmac on the road are resolved.
Not bad.
(cf here the later WorldView-2 first light image of Dallas airport)
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