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He took the cool photos of the flock of doves deploying from the Space station. I got this shot before they send it up to him as a karaoke tribute.

P.S. www.planet.com just went live.

And from today’s Financial Times:

Over the next 12 months, San Francisco start-up Planet Labs is set to launch 100 small satellites that will together be able to photograph the entire globe every 24 hours.

“By the end of the year it will be the largest constellation ever launched by humanity,” says Will Marshall, co-founder and chief executive of Planet Labs. “It’s more than all the other commercial companies of all satellite types launching this year put together. This will enable us to have absolutely unprecedented imagery coverage of the globe.”

6 responses to “New Artist in Residence at Planet Labs with a tribute to the photographer of Flock 1 on the ISS”

  1. Wakata’s shot from the ISS
    When Doves Fly!

  2. Neat! & interesting project.

  3. Ground control to major atom…..

  4. I’m guessing (hoping) they aren’t launching them all from the ISS. That would rather constrain the capabilities of the constellation, all being in the same orbit like that, and a non-polar one, to boot.

  5. Odd. That image from the ISS is also on Planet Labs’ home page, but it appears as mirror image there (yours posted here looks correct).

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