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Think how much money and how many years it took NASA to get satellites into space.
Recent studies by satellites such as the WMAP satellite have shown that, in fact, there are just tiny differences in that background.
And that's hard to know, because those processes and conditions are taking place beneath kilometers of ice, and satellites, like the one that produced this image, are blind to observe them.
There's an outer space layer with black holes and satellites and research satellites and asteroid mining.
It has to go all over the world: through fibers, through satellites, through all kinds of connections.
And it's going to pass us so close that it's actually going to come underneath our weather satellites.
And I was really lucky to go to the University of Iowa where I could study under Professor James Van Allen who built instruments for the first U.S. satellites.
Well, we collect data from satellites, from airplanes, from ground vehicles, from people.
That's equivalent to a constellation of 12 satellites at highest res capacity.
CA: You know, looking ahead, one huge initiative SpaceX is believed to be, rumored to be working on, is a massive network of literally thousands of low earth orbit satellites to provide high-bandwidth, low-cost internet connection to every square foot of planet earth.
This would a huge increase in the total number of satellites in orbit.
BFR can take the satellites that we're currently taking to orbit to many orbits.
It allows for even a new class of satellites to be delivered to orbit.
So the Earth is cool, but what we really want to show are the spacecraft, so I'm going to bring the interface back up, and now you're looking at a number of satellites orbiting the Earth.
We haven't included military satellites and weather satellites and communication satellites and reconnaissance satellites.
On that morning, U.S. President Bill Clinton ordered that a special switch be thrown in the orbiting satellites of the Global Positioning System.
And around the world, satellites and warning systems are saving lives in flood-prone areas such as Bangladesh.
So the story begins over 50 years ago with the launch of the first generation of U.S. government photo reconnaissance satellites.
All of this has only made satellites bigger and bigger and bigger and more expensive, now nearly a billion, with a b, dollars per copy.
I think a lot of people actually understand this anecdotally, but in order to visualize just how sparsely our planet is collected, some friends and I put together a dataset of the 30 million pictures that have been gathered by these satellites between 2000 and 2010.
I realize that it does sound a little bit crazy that we were going to go out and just begin designing satellites, but fortunately we had help.
This was hitchhiking small satellites alongside much larger satellites.
And a new generation of engineers and scientists, mostly out of universities, began launching these very small, breadbox-sized satellites called CubeSats.
In space, size drives cost, and we had worked with these very small, breadbox-sized satellites in school, but as we began to better understand the laws of physics, we found that the quality of pictures those satellites could take was very limited, because the laws of physics dictate that the best picture you can take through a telescope is a function of the diameter of that telescope, and these satellites had a very small, very constrained volume.
Traditional imaging satellites use a line scanner, similar to a Xerox machine, and as they traverse the Earth, they take pictures, scanning row by row by row to build the complete image.
And soon, we'll turn our attention to launching a constellation of 24 or more of these satellites and beginning to build the scalable analytics that will allow us to unearth the insights in the petabytes of data we will collect.
Why build these satellites?
Well, it turns out imaging satellites have a unique ability to provide global transparency, and providing that transparency on a timely basis is simply an idea whose time has come.
You normally have to use satellites and it takes a long time to launch them.
This is the problem: Satellites are big, expensive and they're slow.
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