The Black Lives Matter mural on the road to the White House, as seen by the Planet Labs satellite orbiting overhead.
3 responses to “In Space, We Can Hear Your Screams”
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and going back 12 years, I took this photo of a protester afraid for the future
at the Obama DNC of all places -
And from today’s news… to help provide transparency in conflict zones, globally and domestically…
"Satellite start-up Planet Labs is taking advantage of SpaceX’s falling launch prices to greatly expand its constellation of orbiting cameras in the coming weeks, piggybacking on the company’s rockets to enable customers to capture high-resolution photographs of the world from space. The new system will be able to photograph any location in the world up to 12 times a day.
For about 30 years, launch prices were pretty flat, up until last summer,” Mr Marshall said. “Then SpaceX dropped its prices . . . That really is enabling for companies like ours. “The fundamental reason they are able to bring down prices is the reusability,” Mr Marshall said. “It’s too early to tell how the rest of the market will respond. Other people are certainly trying to keep our and other people’s business but it’s hard.”
Planet will be launched with SpaceX’s own Starlink communications satellites. He added: “The space industry is really well adapted to be able to help in these global crises . . . The inherent resilience has come through.”
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A raster-scan of the planet, from Ashley Vance at Bloomberg "Such imagery used to be rare, expensive and controlled by governments. Now, Planet has built what amounts to a real-time accounting system of the earth that just about anyone can access.
Planet will go from photographing locations twice a day to as many as 12 times a day. Whether it’s financial research or chronicling a social-justice movement, more photos means more information to help construct what imagery analysts call patterns of life. “If you can look at a facility day after day and all throughout the day, you learn so much more about it,” Lewis said. “Most people don’t understand how powerful this is because they really haven’t had access to it before.
Both Planet’s low- and high-resolution satellites have been following the protests in major cities around the world. The satellites have also been tracking the chaotic state of things in recent months. Throughout the pandemic, people have turned to satellite images to monitor slowdowns in activity in cities, check on military activity and follow shipments of goods making their way to ports.”
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