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Satellites like these have done an amazing job at helping us to understand our planet.
But if we want to understand it much more regularly, we need lots of satellites, and this model isn't scalable.
So me and my friends, we started Planet Labs to make satellites ultra-compact and small and highly capable.
We call this satellite "Dove," and we call it "Dove" because satellites are typically named after birds, but normally birds of prey: like Eagle, Hawk, Swoop, Kill, I don't know, Kestrel, these sort of things.
We rapidly prototype our satellites.
We even put satellites in space just to test the satellites, and we've learned to manufacture our satellites at scale.
In fact, the founders of our company, Chris, Robbie and I, we met over 15 years ago at the United Nations when they were hosting a conference about exactly that question: How do you use satellites to help humanity?
How do you use satellites to help people in developing countries or with climate change?
Our entire team is passionate about using satellites to help humanity.
I'm going to show you a video from just four weeks ago of two of our satellites being launched from the International Space Station.
It gives you a bit of a sense of scale of our two satellites.
It's like some of the smallest satellites ever are being launched from the biggest satellite ever.
It's the largest constellation of Earth-imaging satellites in human history, and it's going to provide a completely radical new data set about our changing planet.
You see, we're going to launch more than 100 of these satellites like these over the course of the next year.
It's going to be the largest constellation of satellites in human history.
Even though we launched these just a couple of weeks ago, we've already got some initial imagery from the satellites and I'm going to show it publicly for the first time right now.
So they’re used in devices that find underground oil and mineral deposits, and they also make highly accurate atomic clocks, like the ones used in global positioning satellites.
Computers control our military equipment, everything from missile silos to satellites to nuclear defense networks.
You have to get the stuff into the real world for it to really count, and sometimes it will be large companies, and Nicholas can talk about satellites.
There are many reasons that stationary satellites aren't the best things, but there are a lot of reasons why they are, and for two billion dollars, you can connect a lot more than 100 million people, but the reason I picked two, and I will leave this as my last slide, is two billion dollars is what we were spending in Afghanistan every week.
Four years ago, here at TED, I announced Planet's Mission 1: to launch a fleet of satellites that would image the entire Earth, every day, and to democratize access to it.
Well, after many Apollo projects of our own, launching the largest fleet of satellites in human history, we have reached our target.
And we now have over 200 satellites in orbit, downlinking their data to 31 ground stations we built around the planet.
CA: And at the time, you were kind of this hotshot entrepreneur, working with satellites.
I think you had two successful companies, and then you started addressing this problem of how could you use satellites to revolutionize radio.
I always loved space technology, and satellites, to me, are sort of like the canoes that our ancestors first pushed out into the water.
So it was exciting for me to be part of the navigation of the oceans of the sky, and as I developed different types of satellite communication systems, the main thing I did was to launch bigger and more powerful satellites, the consequence of which was that the receiving antennas could be smaller and smaller, and after going through direct television broadcasting, I had the idea that if we could make a more powerful satellite, the receiving dish could be so small that it would just be a section of a parabolic dish, a flat little plate embedded into the roof of an automobile, and it would be possible to have nationwide satellite radio, and that's Sirius XM today.
Gigantic solar flares can mess with our satellites and electrical equipment, but the chances of it killing you are pretty slim.
Well, just about any calculations involving circles, from the volume of a can of soda to the orbits of satellites.
And, of course, the satellites that we rely on for our GPS and mobile phone signals would not have been there without the space program.
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