On 03/02/2017 Planet announced it was acquiring rival Terra Bella from Google for an undisclosed sum.
On 03/02/2017 Planet announced it was acquiring rival Terra Bella from Google for an undisclosed sum. The complementary EO capabilities of the two companies, high-resolution imagery from the SkySat system with the growing catalogue of medium-resolution images from Planet’s Dove and RapidEye satellites, will be merged.
Planet will acquire Terra Bella’s business, including its constellation of seven SkySat satellites. Moreover, Google will also sign a multi-year contract to purchase imaging data from Planet.
See more at: http://spacenews.com/planet-to-acquire-terra-bella-from-google/
The ONION team to participate in the Fourth International Federated and Fractionated Satellite Systems Workshop,
October 10-11, 2016
Sapienza University. Rome – Italy
More than 100 customers already, from agriculture to humanitarian organisations
Agreement reached with three University programmes to demonstrate on-orbit CubeSat technologies.
Business Wire highlighted the succesful launch of BlackSky's first demonstration satellite Pathfinder 1 of 25/09/2016.
A recent article from SpaceNews highlights NASA's plans to purchase tens of millions of dollars of Earth science data from constellations of small satellites in 2017 to understand if data can meet its needs.