Posted on 04/19/2018 6:41:30 PM PDT by bitt
EarthNow is a new company looking to provide satellite imagery and live video in virtually real-time. Its unsettling pitch describes a network of satellites that can see any corner of the globe and provide live video with a latency of about a second. And a look at the startup’s top investors gives a lot of confidence that this thing is happening.
On Wednesday, EarthNow announced that it will emerge from the Intellectual Ventures ISF Incubator to become a full-scale commercial business. Its first round of investors is comprised of a small group of complimentary powerhouses: AirBus, the SoftBank Group, Bill Gates, and satellite-industry vet Greg Wyler.
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The want to put up 500 of them. The article I read said there would be a 1 minute delay. I expect that one satellite goes out of range that they hand it off to the next one.
500. Cost only 1 billion dollars.
Wow. I see a lot more in the future.
Yes, they said they will sell the data to governments first.
The kind of data they are producing would pay back a billion the first year, easy.
Pretty scary stuff.
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