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what happens if you wake up in the

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morning and you understand the state of

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the world as it is right now what could

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that data enable how can people make

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smarter decisions how could for example

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a farmer get better yield on his or her

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crops how could somebody help disaster

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response how can we use satellites to

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help

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humanity that in many ways was the

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underlying thesis of doing planet labs

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was to get data into the hands of people

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that could enable us to make smarter

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responses to that planet labs set out

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with the mission to photograph the

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entire earth every day

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and they thought how are we going to do

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this i said let's build our own

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satellite

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very large they are very expensive we

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took a different approach by making them

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really small we can launch lots of them

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and by launching lots of them we can

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cover this to get to this mission of

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imaging the whole earth every day if we

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can do that then we can literally change

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the way that we see the world and they

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called it the dove it's about size of a

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loaf of bread our doves

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are basically mainly a big camera with a

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telescope looking down

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to take pictures of the earth we

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initially developed the first dove

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satellite in our garage so we kept on

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iterating the dove design we made it

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better and better and eventually we put

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our first one into space

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we had no idea what the quality would be

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like i mean we didn't know if it was

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going to work but we got an image down

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and it was so beautiful

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and that we we knew at that point we

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could make this technology work

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wow we can really do this and we can

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achieve this mission which is something

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that is really needed for us to

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understand global change

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so we had done a couple of demonstration

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satellites but the next steps we wanted

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to do was to scale it up to test

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the first fleets of satellites but what

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made that possible was actually access

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to space so here's the problem that in

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order to take pictures of the entire

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earth every day you're gonna need more

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than one or two satellites you're gonna

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need a whole lot of satellites and you

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need to be able to deploy them really

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fast and really there's only one obvious

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choice on how to deploy that and that's

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there was no other platform in the world

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in order to get access to space of of

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that fashion in that time period than

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the international space station nanomax

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is our key partner with nasa at

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nanoracks we understood plant lab's

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vision and we knew that we could help

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we worked together to figure out what

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was going to be the best way to get as

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many satellites as possible and we

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basically developed a new platform it

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goes out of the gym airlock

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it's picked up by a robotic arm pointed

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out in the space and it fires these

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little satellites off of the space

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they were able to secure 28 of our

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satellites to be launched from the

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international space station and that was

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known as flop one our first

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constellation this opened up the whole

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world

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to uh satellite developers people that

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could put things into orbit fast

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we now deploy these on a regular basis

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from the international space station and

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now today we're able to operate the

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largest fleet of earth imaging

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satellites in human history and none of

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that would have been possible without

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the international space station

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enable young small companies like

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ourselves to get going in space the iss

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provides a lot of opportunities for

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commercial companies to test and find

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where the market in space is going to be

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and so what we're seeing today is a

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proliferation of new ideas and new

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concepts it's almost like it's a

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renaissance of what's happening in space

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buckle up and strap down because this is