First Flock of Doves Planet Labs Ready to Launch

November 27, 2013

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Planet is building the largest Earth observation satellite constellation.

Imagine a raster scanner of Earth, continuously providing imagery of the entire planet.

Financial Times: www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a8b611c0-5661-11e3-ab12-00144feab…
TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2013/11/26/planet-labs-flock-1/

8 responses to “First Flock of Doves Planet Labs Ready to Launch”

Kay Schultz

Nov 27, 2013 at 2:29 am

Cool.

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scleroplex

Nov 27, 2013 at 1:59 pm

me like!

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Drift Words

Nov 27, 2013 at 6:10 pm

spin-stabilised?

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jurvetson

Nov 27, 2013 at 7:21 pm

Earth’s B field and gyros

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jurvetson

Nov 27, 2013 at 7:23 pm

Oh, and with the new flickr format, the extra photos and info have to move to Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153531251660611&set...

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Chris Radcliff

Nov 27, 2013 at 9:07 pm

Such a good idea. They’re essentially the streetview cars of Low Earth Orbit.

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Drift Words

Nov 29, 2013 at 6:54 pm

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson] not bad for a 3-litre package.

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Drift Words

Nov 29, 2013 at 6:54 pm

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_radcliff] streetview unicycles more like.

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