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And the third microsat company with operations coming online soon is Planet Labs: http://www.planet-labs.com

Robinson Meyer at “The Atlantic” did a nice overview two months ago: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/silico...

It’s an interesting time in remote sensing.

Ah yes, Uthercast

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7130768

They are owned by Longford. Longford owned perfect cover for intelligence assets in middle east (oilfields in Iraq), all of a sudden they sold those and took over spy sat startup.

CIA money laundering/cover for intelligence assets type of deal.

Both cameras were installed a couple weeks ago and are functioning: http://blog.urthecast.com/updates/urthecast-cameras-successf...

(Yes, you'd think they'd update their website.)