Just two days after its announcement that Google plans to acquire
satellite imaging company Skybox, Google is at it again.
Uber has teamed up with DigitalGlobe that will see
the satellite imaging company supply high - resolution satellite images to the ride - sharing service.
Stanford grads weren't far behind, with 32 startups on the list — including video streaming company Viki,
satellite imaging company Skybox, mobile startup Karma Science, student loan refinancing company SoFi, and genetic testing startup Counsyl.
Last year's third place finisher,
satellite imaging company Skybox Imaging, reached an agreement with the search giant last August to be acquired for a whopping $ 500 million.
Not exact matches
That's what Planet Labs, an earth -
imaging company that lost 26
satellites in the Antares rocket explosion Tuesday, said about the launch failure.
The candidates learn about products such as Google Earth, a
satellite imaging program; get an introduction to what's referred to as the
company's Googley culture; and discuss a wide range of topics (atheism, Russian relations, Internet access in Africa) in hour - long sessions that can seem a long way from Iowa and New Hampshire.
The
company already has a 1 - metre cube
satellite called SkySat - 1 in orbit and has plans for 23 more, each with high - resolution
imaging and video capability.
Other
companies are taking advantage of lower - cost launch services offered by
companies like Virgin Galactic and SpaceX to send up constellations of
imaging satellites.
PAYPAL founder Elon Musk's civilian spaceflight
company, SpaceX, achieved its first commercial success this week after its homegrown Falcon 1 rocket lofted a Malaysian Earth -
imaging satellite into orbit.
Meanwhile, Skybox
Imaging, a
satellite company created by former students of Twiggs, was recently bought by Google for $ 500 million.
Over the past two decades my
company has used
imaging radar
satellites to map oil on the sea surface for 70 million square kilometres of ocean.
By Wednesday, January 31, after numerous requests, a flyby was arranged from
satellite -
imaging company Digital Globe, which supplies images for Google Earth.
Taken by Planet Labs, a
company with the goal of selling high - resolution
satellite imaging, it depicts construction on the new headquarters from September 2015 through the present day.