@Zetetic Astronomer Who are you trolling? It is SAD for you. It is just unbelievable that some people, like you, believes their own lies. You have my condolences.
shame that most of the people that come here, with such wonderful things like this, don't come to give a talk, they come to give a lecture, and are surprised at the difference between the two
***** in my opinion, a talk is where the speaker allows input into the speech and adjusts accordingly, like the audience clapping or booing, but in a lecture, they expect the audience to listen silently and obediently and for the record, it's not a binary, one or the other, it's more a scale with a casual conversation on one side and a drill Sargent's 'instructions' (for lack of better word) on the other
***** I was talking more about the pauses and interruptions with the applause in the speech, knowing that most already know that they have to dumb down their speech to layman levels, because if you notice in his speech, he doesn't really know how to handle those moments and is really thrown off when they happen
r2dxhate Your comment is quite ironic really, you "should" be discussing how this innovation will help humans conserve and track resources but instead you are chastising people for having the "wrong" conversation weeks ago.
you missed the point, you all did. if you were concentrating on how comfortable he looked when the audience made noise, or were wondering why a fuckin ted talk wasn't an open discussion with the audience, then you really got hung up on the wrong details after the video. jacque fresco has been talking about a resource based economy for years, but the idea relies on developing world wide systems that can track our resources in sharper and sharper detail. while some are afraid of invasion of privacy from sky cameras, i see it as a step towards managing our forests and ice caps and wild life. with the success of this project, cameras with more zoom and video instead of photo and different time indexes other than noon will soon follow. if there was a way to watch every hour of every day at any point on earth, we could track ocean life in real time without mounting tracking devices. even the japanese are beginning to side with ocean conservation. if we manage our resources correctly, we can all have sushi indefinitely.
That makes me wonder how long it'll take Google to use this data or do something similar for Google Maps. Would be pretty awesome to have them updated daily.
“We even sent satellites 🛰 just to test them” ! This sentence makes me wonder if there even is a legal hassle to launch things in space in the USA ! Here in France we do send satellites in space roughly on a monthly basis, however I am not sure how a start up in a garage in Kourou would get easily all the clearance to send a nano satellite “just for testing purpose” !
I was thinking the same thing, hundreds of debris flying thousands of miles per second with no ways of deorbiting or general control. I don't feel it's a good idea to allow small companies to put their "prototypes" in orbit.
@@aapowilen5436 everything eventually fall back to earth only.Even satellites are falling back to earth.Periodically they fire fuel to reset there position.Thats why satellites have a life ,like 15 years once fuel run out they fall back to earth eventually.NASA is trying to make a technology that can refuel satellites.
Yea, it was a simple solution, put it that way. And believe it or not, we all suggested, (Cause we knew it had a life in orbit); to bring it down. Basically, de-orbit burn was calculated in the lifetime. However, not all projects that I'm aware of, did this.
Amazing, i have a couple of questions though, if the satellites are not pointing in the correct direction do they have any way of turning themselves around to point at the earth or do they just rely on being released at the correct angle? Also with there being so many satellites do they pose a risk to other craft crashing into them? I'm sure i heard about there being a lot of "Space Junk" that causes a hazard to craft being in orbit at the minute i.e old decommissioned satellites, will these ultimately enter the earths atmosphere and burn up? I find it fascinating just how far we have come in terms of technology in a relatively short period of time.
@Heriberto Rojas Gonzalez Yes, but being this comment was a few years ago, I probably had the thought that our planet was warming due to climate change and even before then the general excepted science was and still is, as we continue to warm agriculture yields will decline.
@Heriberto Rojas Gonzalez Nobody cares about global warming btw ..except people who make money of it.) Maybe the same reason why the WorldBank published papers backed with many other published papers are predicting numbers surpassing 500 + million displace persons by 2050-2060,if you had any sense you would also know the full implications that a further 3 degrees C will have globally by 2100,do you even understand/know what the face of our planet will look like given this rapid rise in temperature? Do you even understand what one northern cell would mean?
Great Job Will. Congrats Will and his devoted group for this project.Like you and many many other I am extremely hopeful of the benefits which mankind can derive from their development. Just a word of caution to ensure it not to fall in the hand of terrorist who has least concern about making this small planet more liveable to every creatures. Being a person working towards providing safe drinking water to the rural population and creating awareness of most optimum and thrifty use of water, I am interested to know whether it can help in identifying and assessing ground water reserves and its movement/flow?
Can you imagine rapidly deployable networks of satellites like this that provide everything from imagery, weather, wifi and more- all deployed across ALL the planets for real-time interplanetary monitoring? Personally I want to know what the weather on Titan is right now. This Henry Ford model is a big step towards building other scalable space technologies.
Its interesting, 5 years old, and no access now. Its still not available. Plus, cube sat's now are prettty typical. I remember being one of the engineers on one of the first IR imaging sat. We thought we'd change the world too. Kinda sad, that we have indeed changed the world, not for the better.
@@haveaniceday7950 As far as Free(ish) direct access to satelitte data, well, depends on you're familiarity with radio (You can download images from some weather sats, direct. Archived data may be another source. As far as changing it for the worse, No, our ideas were cool and exciting. The use of the information was in question.
Rob Gandy I take it the use of the information wasn't up to you? Might it have been a government who abused the data? Do you know of anyway to put an infrared "filter" on satellites images that are already in an archive or that are new but not infrared?
c0o0o0o0o0l I looked on the site and maybe I'm missing it but they don't seem to be offering open source access to their data. A free trial is NOT open source. And it looks like they are only serving big business and governments at that. I'm very disappointed, this talk was exciting, but doesn't appear to be truthful.
I would be more interested in putting these tiny satellites around the Sun, asteroids, our moon, Mars, and all the other planets and moons in the solar system.
Its a pity there is no way to ask the lecture questions through TED interface. I wonder how long all these things are supposed to be working and what will be with them after they stop working. What might happen if they meet another satellilte on their way and what this meeting might cause for people under the point of the meeting and around. How they send the information to the scientists? Might this transfer cause any problems for other stations or satellites and what can happen if they do cause the problems. This idea sounds really scary. It seems it is time to make holes and learn how to be hobbit if all this space flies will come to space without making all the risks equal zero.
Very cool technology. A tad on the intrusive side if it's that much better than the old stuff. I hear that the government can use the old stuff to read a license plate from space. I'm glad that I'm not important enough for them to take notice of me. Not sure how I'd feel about the whole world being able to see every thing I do in my backyard everyday though. Of course the average guy like me can't access those capabilities with Google earth. But this new stuff is going to be shared equally and universally with all people? Right. Okay. Not sure how I feel about all this except that I doubt that it's going to make very many things very much better in the short term.
Tiny steps every day. There's always the modern question of what happens with the knowledge we gain. At one time the Pythagorean theorem was hidden from every day people upon discovery. It was deemed too important for every day people. That society held back scientific advancement for around 1000 years. Yes, the government can use it, but so can we. And that's more important. What if we launched a rocket to the moon 1000 years before? Where would be now?
Marlene Taylor _"What if we launched a rocket to the moon 1000 years before? Where would be now?"_ Well.. Assuming that we followed the path we are currently on, probably _extinct_. That guess is based on warnings currently being issued by the scientific community, and the apparent indifference thereto by the general populace; not on any "fear of progress" on my behalf.
Marlene Taylor You're right, no one can predict the future. However, the warnings being given (which I'm sure you've heard ad-nauseum) are about global warming, deforestation, pollution, etc... Some are calling this period in our earth's evolution "The 6th Great Mass Extinction", if only because of the number of species falling off the evolutionary tree on a daily basis. And the cause of _all_ these things can be whittled down to our ever-increasing population figures. Now I, unlike many others, _do not_ expect some great _mass awakening of consciousness_ to occur that will reverse this trend. That is too much to hope for. What I _do_ expect to happen eventually (as we will have no other recourse) is for mankind to fall under the proverbial _iron boot_.. And that is something we seem to be well on our way to accomplishing. And we will celebrate every minute of its coming, because we _love_ the technology that will make it possible; even though we currently do nothing but complain about the invasion of privacy. We'll get over that, trust me. We always do.
i think the risks of breach of privacy are well worth a more reliable observation of Earth's weather. need more data on the path that the Earth's climate is heading
I have a question to that cube sats sir. and to all of you how long it would last in space 10 years or 20years? if we did nt small satellites makes too long its life span we can create a fleet of that and control the space soon as making for research and maybe space farm too?
I hope they can use this in South American rainforested countries, Central Africa, Indonesian islands, and other remote, difficult-to-access places to help in curbing the illegal logging. I mean, that's still a problem! "Save the Rainforest" is still something to care about! (Similar note, maybe they can track illegal whaling ships? "Save the Whales!") Those governments and NGO's need all the advantages they can get, and the more information they have the more effective policy can be.
This can be used against us in far too many ways. Regardless of the positive and good intentions, it will cause a lot of problems with privacy, and debris.
What the public knows is very limited. The fact of the matter is satellite technology has been good enough to view people for many many years. As a child, as far back as 1969, I remember telling people I knew we were being watched. But, they all thought I was crazy, and if I uttered such a thing to my Father, then he'd beat the living crap out of me. However, now days, one can easily go on google earth and use the very VERY watered down version of the technology to get a great panoramic view of just about any neighborhood in the US. But, remember, as good as anyone thinks this is, it is nothing in comparison to what the government already had many many years ago!
I wish Will Marshall good fortune in this endeavour. I am afraid he is going to need it. The current political, military and economic establishments can only see this project as a thread to the status quo in which they control access to this type of data. I believe a reaction will be inevitable. At a guess we will see the following pattern: 1) The establishment will try to find a legal infringement to force the project to shut down. 2) If this does not succeed personal attacks will ensue. (As this is an American company, it's owners will probably be portrait as unpatriotic, a favourite accusation of the American establishment). 3) As a last resort the company will be raided and shut down by either police or military depending which parts of the Patriot Act or Homeland Security Act will be used. The good news is that Planet Labs story and success is known and will most likely inspire others to follow. In the end the establishment will not be able to control the flood gates and the dam will break (please forgive the metaphor) Again I wish Mr Marshall all the best and I will be enjoying the images for as long as they are available.
Not really, especially if you would also do the same for NATO troops and the Kiev supported militias as well. If you're only going to watch the Russian troops, you'd be just misguided and likely bored very quickly. The topic itself is very interesting though, especially from how nations like the USA and other NATO members (but also Russia and China) may react to request for data on what they consider to be matters of military (and therefore ultimately also national) security. Are these satellite images going to be scrubs for any military secrets? And if so, for any nation or just NATO ones? If not scrubbed, will a state consider you to be a security threat or even a potential enemy the moment you access material with military info on it? Thinks can get pretty dicey pretty quickly when paranoid military commanders realize that modern technology can “open source” what they considered to be resonably controlled information only years ago. Just some stuff to think about.
No word about the end of like issues of a thousand new satellites ? Something like getting them out of orbit so they don't collide with other satellites ?
This will be good for surveillance against illegal doing. I wonder if this has a a live stream capability, so that it's easier to track those criminals.
It's send with the cargo of the ISS. No special rocket needed, just a little empty space in the cargo rocket of the International Space Station is what you need. That's why it's relatively low costed
B Bobby oef, that's a difficult question. The satellite is 10x10x30cm so the fairing must be bigger than that. You''ll need a couple of rocket engines, a big amount of fuel. I suppose the rocket will be about 13 meters tall and 3 meters in diameter. Do you agree?
Mart Yes I agree my friend and thanks for the info, unfortunately putting a satellite of this small size still requires a gigantic rocket Probably the dream of sending DIY satellites from the rooftop of one's house is still a century ahead
And 7 years after this amazing presentation, the listing of Planet Labs is just around the corner. Congrats, Will. Ad Astra!
21 NSA workers got physically ill when he said "democratise access" to information.
ISRO sent their 88 satellites on its 104 satellites launch world record.
@Rogue Samurai 88 saatelites are put into exact multiple orbits while the rocket is at a speed of 27000Kmph in space
@Zetetic Astronomer Who are you trolling? It is SAD for you. It is just unbelievable that some people, like you, believes their own lies. You have my condolences.
use poor max payload rocket. just because of the cheap price then let your ISRO do it.
@@AwardQueue working any space in the world.
@@AwardQueue then why is USA choosing ISRO over NASA for their recent sattelite launches??
goosebumps at universal access. this is simply amazing.
*global
Big brother in the sky, they are watching you now!
shame that most of the people that come here, with such wonderful things like this, don't come to give a talk, they come to give a lecture, and are surprised at the difference between the two
***** in my opinion, a talk is where the speaker allows input into the speech and adjusts accordingly, like the audience clapping or booing, but in a lecture, they expect the audience to listen silently and obediently
and for the record, it's not a binary, one or the other, it's more a scale with a casual conversation on one side and a drill Sargent's 'instructions' (for lack of better word) on the other
***** I was talking more about the pauses and interruptions with the applause in the speech, knowing that most already know that they have to dumb down their speech to layman levels, because if you notice in his speech, he doesn't really know how to handle those moments and is really thrown off when they happen
beirirangu Feedback in these talks is hard to predict for the speaker, especially applause and sometimes laughter, that's all it is.
r2dxhate Your comment is quite ironic really, you "should" be discussing how this innovation will help humans conserve and track resources but instead you are chastising people for having the "wrong" conversation weeks ago.
you missed the point, you all did. if you were concentrating on how comfortable he looked when the audience made noise, or were wondering why a fuckin ted talk wasn't an open discussion with the audience, then you really got hung up on the wrong details after the video. jacque fresco has been talking about a resource based economy for years, but the idea relies on developing world wide systems that can track our resources in sharper and sharper detail. while some are afraid of invasion of privacy from sky cameras, i see it as a step towards managing our forests and ice caps and wild life. with the success of this project, cameras with more zoom and video instead of photo and different time indexes other than noon will soon follow. if there was a way to watch every hour of every day at any point on earth, we could track ocean life in real time without mounting tracking devices. even the japanese are beginning to side with ocean conservation. if we manage our resources correctly, we can all have sushi indefinitely.
That makes me wonder how long it'll take Google to use this data or do something similar for Google Maps. Would be pretty awesome to have them updated daily.
“We even sent satellites 🛰 just to test them” ! This sentence makes me wonder if there even is a legal hassle to launch things in space in the USA !
Here in France we do send satellites in space roughly on a monthly basis, however I am not sure how a start up in a garage in Kourou would get easily all the clearance to send a nano satellite “just for testing purpose” !
Space is owned by no one so no permission or permitted by some other country, maybe by India or China
Dove is a great name, suits the whole attitude of the team and invention. Your best invention was your example, keep going guys. First of many.
ISRO help them put their 88 satellites into orbit
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This sounds like an excellent project, I am just a little worried about this creating even more space junk/debris orbiting the earth?
I was thinking the same thing, hundreds of debris flying thousands of miles per second with no ways of deorbiting or general control. I don't feel it's a good idea to allow small companies to put their "prototypes" in orbit.
no they deorbit in like 6 months
@@aapowilen5436 everything eventually fall back to earth only.Even satellites are falling back to earth.Periodically they fire fuel to reset there position.Thats why satellites have a life ,like 15 years once fuel run out they fall back to earth eventually.NASA is trying to make a technology that can refuel satellites.
@@navaneeth1087 Yes, I've changed my opinion. This comment was left 4 years ago. Surprised someone still found it
Yea, it was a simple solution, put it that way. And believe it or not, we all suggested, (Cause we knew it had a life in orbit); to bring it down. Basically, de-orbit burn was calculated in the lifetime. However, not all projects that I'm aware of, did this.
Amazing, i have a couple of questions though, if the satellites are not pointing in the correct direction do they have any way of turning themselves around to point at the earth or do they just rely on being released at the correct angle? Also with there being so many satellites do they pose a risk to other craft crashing into them? I'm sure i heard about there being a lot of "Space Junk" that causes a hazard to craft being in orbit at the minute i.e old decommissioned satellites, will these ultimately enter the earths atmosphere and burn up? I find it fascinating just how far we have come in terms of technology in a relatively short period of time.
This is awesome. It needs more attention.
Really cool and innovative. Also can be used for global wifi!
no
@@DavOlek_ua who asked?
WOW! And the best part is they want to make the data open to all! :)
How are you going to help farmers in fixed agriculture areas, to improve crop yields? Just curious
@Heriberto Rojas Gonzalez
Yes, but being this comment was a few years ago, I probably had the thought that our planet was warming due to climate change and even before then the general excepted science was and still is, as we continue to warm agriculture yields will decline.
@Heriberto Rojas Gonzalez
Nobody cares about global warming btw ..except people who make money of it.)
Maybe the same reason why the WorldBank published papers backed with many other published papers are predicting numbers surpassing 500 + million displace persons by 2050-2060,if you had any sense you would also know the full implications that a further 3 degrees C will have globally by 2100,do you even understand/know what the face of our planet will look like given this rapid rise in temperature? Do you even understand what one northern cell would mean?
Great Job Will. Congrats Will and his devoted group for this project.Like you and many many other I am extremely hopeful of the benefits which mankind can derive from their development. Just a word of caution to ensure it not to fall in the hand of terrorist who has least concern about making this small planet more liveable to every creatures. Being a person working towards providing safe drinking water to the rural population and creating awareness of most optimum and thrifty use of water, I am interested to know whether it can help in identifying and assessing ground water reserves and its movement/flow?
first thing that came into my mind was catching illegal logging operations
I love this!
Can we access this dataset for our apps and application ?
Hello and thank you for sharing this video! I would love to work for this company. Is there any chance there is a location in USA around Boston, Ma?
i would explore the change in the entire nation with their geographical geometry
This is absolutely amazing.
Can you imagine rapidly deployable networks of satellites like this that provide everything from imagery, weather, wifi and more- all deployed across ALL the planets for real-time interplanetary monitoring? Personally I want to know what the weather on Titan is right now.
This Henry Ford model is a big step towards building other scalable space technologies.
Thanks to indian space nd reasearch organization who launched your 88(total was 104 )sattelite in one go.
Its interesting, 5 years old, and no access now. Its still not available. Plus, cube sat's now are prettty typical. I remember being one of the engineers on one of the first IR imaging sat. We thought we'd change the world too. Kinda sad, that we have indeed changed the world, not for the better.
wrong. go to planet.com and sign up for the planet explorer trial and you will get access to the data since 5 years in a web app.
Are there any IR satellites with open source data?
Why do you say you changed the world for the worse?
@@haveaniceday7950 As far as Free(ish) direct access to satelitte data, well, depends on you're familiarity with radio (You can download images from some weather sats, direct. Archived data may be another source. As far as changing it for the worse, No, our ideas were cool and exciting. The use of the information was in question.
Rob Gandy I take it the use of the information wasn't up to you? Might it have been a government who abused the data?
Do you know of anyway to put an infrared "filter" on satellites images that are already in an archive or that are new but not infrared?
c0o0o0o0o0l I looked on the site and maybe I'm missing it but they don't seem to be offering open source access to their data. A free trial is NOT open source. And it looks like they are only serving big business and governments at that. I'm very disappointed, this talk was exciting, but doesn't appear to be truthful.
Flat earthers: biting their nails and repeating while rocking …
“it’s all done in a pool, wake up sheep!!!”
I would be more interested in putting these tiny satellites around the Sun, asteroids, our moon, Mars, and all the other planets and moons in the solar system.
NASA has by now launched few cube sized satellites around Mars.
Those people are heroes.
But can it see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?
Tenjamn I really love your question!
The technology brings lot of opportunities, however, it raises a lot of privacy concerns.
Genius !!!!!!!!! Wow!!! AMAZING WORK!!!!👍🏾❤️
Will Marshall and company - we salute you ! Thank you !!
I better stop picking my nose outside.
Its a pity there is no way to ask the lecture questions through TED interface. I wonder how long all these things are supposed to be working and what will be with them after they stop working. What might happen if they meet another satellilte on their way and what this meeting might cause for people under the point of the meeting and around. How they send the information to the scientists? Might this transfer cause any problems for other stations or satellites and what can happen if they do cause the problems. This idea sounds really scary. It seems it is time to make holes and learn how to be hobbit if all this space flies will come to space without making all the risks equal zero.
Super
I can't wait
Hey, I can see my house from here, and here it is yesterday! Wheeeeeee
Very cool technology. A tad on the intrusive side if it's that much better than the old stuff.
I hear that the government can use the old stuff to read a license plate from space.
I'm glad that I'm not important enough for them to take notice of me.
Not sure how I'd feel about the whole world being able to see every thing I do in my backyard everyday though. Of course the average guy like me can't access those capabilities with Google earth.
But this new stuff is going to be shared equally and universally with all people?
Right.
Okay.
Not sure how I feel about all this except that I doubt that it's going to make very many things very much better in the short term.
_"A tad on the intrusive side..."_ I've a feeling we ain't seen nothin' yet.
Tiny steps every day. There's always the modern question of what happens with the knowledge we gain. At one time the Pythagorean theorem was hidden from every day people upon discovery. It was deemed too important for every day people. That society held back scientific advancement for around 1000 years. Yes, the government can use it, but so can we. And that's more important. What if we launched a rocket to the moon 1000 years before? Where would be now?
Marlene Taylor _"What if we launched a rocket to the moon 1000 years before? Where would be now?"_ Well.. Assuming that we followed the path we are currently on, probably _extinct_. That guess is based on warnings currently being issued by the scientific community, and the apparent indifference thereto by the general populace; not on any "fear of progress" on my behalf.
Why specifically do you say extinct? One can theorize both ways.
Marlene Taylor
You're right, no one can predict the future. However, the warnings being given (which I'm sure you've heard ad-nauseum) are about global warming, deforestation, pollution, etc... Some are calling this period in our earth's evolution "The 6th Great Mass Extinction", if only because of the number of species falling off the evolutionary tree on a daily basis. And the cause of _all_ these things can be whittled down to our ever-increasing population figures.
Now I, unlike many others, _do not_ expect some great _mass awakening of consciousness_ to occur that will reverse this trend. That is too much to hope for. What I _do_ expect to happen eventually (as we will have no other recourse) is for mankind to fall under the proverbial _iron boot_.. And that is something we seem to be well on our way to accomplishing.
And we will celebrate every minute of its coming, because we _love_ the technology that will make it possible; even though we currently do nothing but complain about the invasion of privacy. We'll get over that, trust me. We always do.
did isro launch these satellites ?
ROHIT KUMAR yes
Wondering why two launched at the same time and how do they stop them tumbling and stay stationary.
Tiny rocket engines powered by solar panels :D
Reaction wheels
Congratz ! Great talk and great project !
Also speak about who placed your Satellite into orbit
what about a website or some kind of info on this
Why does this talk have only 200.000 views?
i think the risks of breach of privacy are well worth a more reliable observation of Earth's weather. need more data on the path that the Earth's climate is heading
NSA: *maniacal laugh*
Could the landslide at Oso have been predicted by seeing earth movements days or weeks in advance? What about earthquakes?
I bet there's hundreds of these already up there...
I have a question to that cube sats sir. and to all of you how long it would last in space 10 years or 20years? if we did nt small satellites makes too long its life span we can create a fleet of that and control the space soon as making for research and maybe space farm too?
what a wonderful man
Nifty! I wager it'll be helpful for meteorologists, as well.
wow Awesome Explanation dude ....
I hope they can use this in South American rainforested countries, Central Africa, Indonesian islands, and other remote, difficult-to-access places to help in curbing the illegal logging. I mean, that's still a problem! "Save the Rainforest" is still something to care about! (Similar note, maybe they can track illegal whaling ships? "Save the Whales!") Those governments and NGO's need all the advantages they can get, and the more information they have the more effective policy can be.
its funny how there is no flat earthers here lol
Nerd
Where can I find the pictures?
How did they change the inclination to a polar orbit after launching from ISS? Was that just the graphic illustration, not the actual orbit?
10 years later they are going public.
Awesome technology. Hello 1984!
This can be used against us in far too many ways. Regardless of the positive and good intentions, it will cause a lot of problems with privacy, and debris.
Vaxsoar yeah space junk when they get decommissioned
Debris? Clean your house first.
This is the future.Right here.
What the public knows is very limited. The fact of the matter is satellite technology has been good enough to view people for many many years. As a child, as far back as 1969, I remember telling people I knew we were being watched. But, they all thought I was crazy, and if I uttered such a thing to my Father, then he'd beat the living crap out of me. However, now days, one can easily go on google earth and use the very VERY watered down version of the technology to get a great panoramic view of just about any neighborhood in the US. But, remember, as good as anyone thinks this is, it is nothing in comparison to what the government already had many many years ago!
I wish Will Marshall good fortune in this endeavour. I am afraid he is going to need it. The current political, military and economic establishments can only see this project as a thread to the status quo in which they control access to this type of data.
I believe a reaction will be inevitable. At a guess we will see the following pattern:
1) The establishment will try to find a legal infringement to force the project to shut down.
2) If this does not succeed personal attacks will ensue. (As this is an American company, it's owners will probably be portrait as unpatriotic, a favourite accusation of the American establishment).
3) As a last resort the company will be raided and shut down by either police or military depending which parts of the Patriot Act or Homeland Security Act will be used.
The good news is that Planet Labs story and success is known and will most likely inspire others to follow. In the end the establishment will not be able to control the flood gates and the dam will break (please forgive the metaphor)
Again I wish Mr Marshall all the best and I will be enjoying the images for as long as they are available.
faith in humanity restored
thank you for sharing your idea, creation, and data with the world
Does it make me a bad person if I said I'd use it to keep a close watch on the Russian military?
it makes you naive ;)
I would use it to track black people so they dont get lost in the dark
Not really, especially if you would also do the same for NATO troops and the Kiev supported militias as well. If you're only going to watch the Russian troops, you'd be just misguided and likely bored very quickly. The topic itself is very interesting though, especially from how nations like the USA and other NATO members (but also Russia and China) may react to request for data on what they consider to be matters of military (and therefore ultimately also national) security. Are these satellite images going to be scrubs for any military secrets? And if so, for any nation or just NATO ones? If not scrubbed, will a state consider you to be a security threat or even a potential enemy the moment you access material with military info on it? Thinks can get pretty dicey pretty quickly when paranoid military commanders realize that modern technology can “open source” what they considered to be resonably controlled information only years ago. Just some stuff to think about.
Man, we've got bored now :) But we can play with your's military in tic tac toe at corn field ;)
we would move at night
Brilliant.
What about security of countries?
now give that data to Hans Rosling
okay so what is the website to access all this data?
Are the drawings on the satelite made by kim jung gi?
Jormungand, it's happening
If they are scalable, do a network, not a circle. That's the only way u can get real-time constant update on what's happening
Satellite are passive devices which orbit the earth so they have to move in circle
the images have too much fixed pattern noise.
so far as its fixed pattern, we have standard analytical image processing techniques at disposure to correct. IMHO.
I would research the effects of greenhouse gasses on different ecosystems
Will it be ported into Google Earth daily though?
Security is getting tighter
Is the business model sustainable?
This system of observation should be around Mars and the Sun.
There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.
Why so short for such a WOW talk
The Indian Space Research Organization launched 88 of their satellites in a single launch with 16 other satellites. 104 satellites in one launch.
So where is free data now?
Cool I'll spy on the area 51 by watching it everyday, thank you very much
Where is our full picture of the globe then?
Voyeur snoopers
you can't see stuff every day because clouds. also, urthecast has better resolution + video + they focus on points of interest
Fantastic, when will this technology be deployed to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Titan, Europa ?
the way he says "garage" sounds weird. i learned to place emphasis on "ra" rather than "ga"
little brothers are watching us
google M&A now circling overhead...
Nice !
Coolest thing I have ever seen. Amazing!!!!!!
JUST WOW
Wow, i'm so impressive, that what i have dreamed about a few years ago, and today it's possible. That just goes to show once dream comes true
i would use lydar
And, this is Big Deal
Very Very Cool
No word about the end of like issues of a thousand new satellites ? Something like getting them out of orbit so they don't collide with other satellites ?
This will be good for surveillance against illegal doing. I wonder if this has a a live stream capability, so that it's easier to track those criminals.
That clap... hahahahahaha
So how big rocket is required to send that tiny satellite in space?
It's send with the cargo of the ISS. No special rocket needed, just a little empty space in the cargo rocket of the International Space Station is what you need. That's why it's relatively low costed
I know that already What I was actually trying to ask, if one meant to only send this satellite then how big rocket is required?
B Bobby oef, that's a difficult question. The satellite is 10x10x30cm so the fairing must be bigger than that. You''ll need a couple of rocket engines, a big amount of fuel. I suppose the rocket will be about 13 meters tall and 3 meters in diameter. Do you agree?
Mart Yes I agree my friend and thanks for the info, unfortunately putting a satellite of this small size still requires a gigantic rocket Probably the dream of sending DIY satellites from the rooftop of one's house is still a century ahead
ISRO PSLV 104 satellites at once.