The bandwidth is not expensive. There is simply a lack of it.
Most LEO satellites have 10-20 minutes a day communications window assuming single ground station. Amount of data you can download from a single pass is a tens or hundreds megabytes per day. One high-resolution camera image can be easily over 10MB.
Most LEO satellites have 10-20 minutes a day communications window assuming single ground station. Amount of data you can download from a single pass is a tens or hundreds megabytes per day. One high-resolution camera image can be easily over 10MB.