The first pair of the 28 Planet Labs Earth Observation satellites leave the ISS. You don’t usually get this motion-picture quality perspective. But Koichi Wakata of JAXA was there for the money shot.

Congrats to Planet Labs and their partners in this grand adventure!

11 responses to “When Doves Fly!”

  1. And here are the founders at the Crunchies last night… overall, a very good night!

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    and with Shari Foldes from DFJ
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  2. Oh, and here is that KIBO arm before it flew to the station. I got a tour of it at Kennedy Space Center…

    JEM Kibo

    Bunny Suits

  3. I like the bit of blue at the top – wonder if that is a nice place to live? Congrats

  4. excellent!
    hope they won’t be used to just replicate the Stasi – http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-stasi-spied-on-social-...

  5. Wow what have I bumped into?! Happening, fascinating. (Liked the Avatar 2 cover).

  6. Cool. Added to
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Labs

    As always, thanks for posting as Creative Commons!

  7. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgury/12483589015/]

  8. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex] Interesting article

  9. This photo made it on the NASA photo of the day too.

  10. Here is the source link for this spectacular set twitter.com/Astro_Wakata/media

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