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I'm not sure if this includes the Skylabs-TerraBella launches? Skylabs had seven high-res SkySat satellites that Planet got via acquiring Skylabs/TerraBella co
by shawn-butler 9y ago
I'm not sure if this includes the Skylabs-TerraBella launches?
Skylabs had seven high-res SkySat satellites that Planet got via acquiring Skylabs/TerraBella complementing its existing fleet of medium res satellites.
Planet’s existing network could only get three to five meter resolution, while Skybox’s satellites could manage “sub-meter" accuracy.
80 million in funding seems low. The price of the Skybox/TerraBella acquisition from Google alone had to be in the hundreds of millions.
- lorenzhs 9y agoThere was substantial uncertainty about the cost of TerraBella's acquisition, see https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/google-satellite-planet/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/google-satellite-planet/ which says "We’ve not heard a firm price. Aside from the $300 million figure we heard, another described Terra Bella as essentially being “donated” to Planet." As of April 2015, Planet had raised $183M according to https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/13/planet-labs-rockets-to-118-million-in-series-c-funding-to-cover-the-earth-in-tiny-satellites/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/13/planet-labs-rockets-to-118...