Tiny, privately owned satellites are changing how we view the Earth.
SAN FRANCISCO — In recent months, satellite photos have streamed into a former textile factory here revealing a build-up of potentThis is not a secret CIA facility, and the images didn't come from a billion-dollar surveillance satellite.
A satellite image captured by Planet Labs shows a white plume of smoke from an illegal North Korean missile test on May 4, 2019."I think it's so important that the pictures don't lie," said Will Marshall, one of Planet's co-founders and a former NASA spacecraft designer."The picture is what it is. And sometimes that can be inconvenient. But it also will help us to transition away from this post-truth world, towards one more grounded in facts.
"Earthquakes, fires, floods, typhoons, tsunamis… We can help, because we have an image the day before, an image afterwards, to help responders quickly get in there," Marshall said.by dropping giant film canisters into passing airplanes Planet won't say how much each one costs to make, except that it's"orders of magnitude" cheaper than traditional satellites.Commercial imaging satellites are not new; Americans have been looking at pictures from space of their houses on Google maps for years. But those pictures tend to be several years old, because there are only so many commercial satellites and they can only cover so much ground.
Planet's small satellites stay in orbit only two or three years before burning up as they fall form the sky. So the company is constantly building more of them, with newer and better technology.
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