This makes sense. It's all information. To their credit, the officials involved in regulating private remote sensing systems mostly recognize this, too. As the world's most open society, the national security of the United States is better served making satellite imagery widely available. In fact, the presence of many evaluators means that we are less likely to see good data buried under the sorts of bad analysis or institutional prejudice that, for example, caused the CIA to miss the imminent demise of the Soviet Union or India's surprise nuclear tests.
Open societies do best when information is free, and when problems can be tackled by many minds.
Secrecy and government controls are for the other guys. The latest plans to bring Mars rocks back to Earth.