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Any commentary on the business plan for this company? Outside of the free options, are they targeting media groups that might want on demand imagery of evolving

Any commentary on the business plan for this company? Outside of the free options, are they targeting media groups that might want on demand imagery of evolving news events? It seems like you can pay for the right to have a 30 second ability to direct and capture from the camera? Is it exclusive? e.g. "Here's MSNBC's exclusive footage of the evolving protests in the Ukraine, captured from the ISS..." I always marvel at businesses like this because of the number of barriers they had to get over to literally launch. Build an app and put it on the Play store....or build a space-ready high resolution camera and coordinate its launch and deployment on the ISS? As one light aside, the mission control person sounds like Téa Leoni in Deep Impact.

jd007 13y ago
I've talked with them about their business, and seen their pitch, so I'll chime in a bit. > are they targeting media groups that might want on demand imagery of evolving news events? That is exactly one of their business plans. Whether it is exclusive or not depends on the details of the contract, but I don't think it will be exclusive for the most part. Another part of their business is to provide detailed data on a specific area of land. In a single pass, because they have a continuous video as they pass along, they can construct the 3D geometries of any buildings/structure in that area.