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We built our first satellites in a garage using smartphone components. A CubeSat the size of a loaf of bread can photograph a city.

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Climate change is not something you can argue about when you can literally see the glaciers melting from space, updated daily.

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We left NASA because we wanted to build satellites faster than government allows. In the private sector, we launch more satellites per year than NASA launches per decade.

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We photograph the entire Earth every single day. If something changes on the planet — a forest burns, a dam breaks, a military base expands — we see it.

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Traditional satellites cost $500 million and take 10 years to build. Ours cost a fraction of that and we launch dozens at a time. That is how you cover the whole planet.

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Farmers use our data to see which fields need water. Insurers use it to assess flood damage. Intelligence agencies use it to track military movements. Same data, different questions.