Tiny satellites that photograph the entire planet, every day | Will Marshall




Satellite imaging has revolutionized our knowledge of the Earth, with detailed images of nearly every street corner readily available online. But Planet Labs’ Will Marshall says we can do better and go faster — by getting smaller. He introduces his tiny satellites — no bigger than 10 by 10 by 30 centimeters — that, when launched in a cluster, provide high-res images of the entire planet, updated daily.

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41 responses to “Tiny satellites that photograph the entire planet, every day | Will Marshall”

  1. There is no space. No satellites. The one's that are out there are on weather balloons, Wich can't go higher then 70 km. The earth is flat and nobody can break through the Firmament, we have been fooled. Do your research.

  2. We should launch 100 drones over his garage hovering 24 hours a day. I bet if we did he would close his garage door and blacken out his windows. Who has access to all this data?
    I don't remember giving him permission to launch his crap into my space to take pictures of my stuff!

  3. What a crock of crap! Anyone who believes this bogus nonsense should eat a bullet because you are too stupid to live. Give Elon Musk a few more billion and he could fake it like everything else he does. Or or dump a trillion into the money pit of NASA… They are great at faking space with CGI and Photoshop.

  4. I have a question to that cube sats sir. and to all of you how long it would last in space 10 years or 20years? if we did nt small satellites makes too long its life span we can create a fleet of that and control the space soon as making for research and maybe space farm too?

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