{"id":10261,"date":"2014-03-02T17:13:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T01:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:16:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:16:53","slug":"fleet-of-toaster-sized-satellites-will-orbit-earth-provide-near-real-time-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/fleet-of-toaster-sized-satellites-will-orbit-earth-provide-near-real-time-monitoring","title":{"rendered":"Fleet of Toaster-Sized Satellites Will Orbit Earth, Provide Near Real-Time Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Cameron Scott\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/cscott\/\" rel=\"author\">Cameron Scott<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><br \/> Silicon Valley sprung up on big open stretches of land where military installations had once been. Early semiconductor and computing businesses needed the space. But as Moore\u2019s law progressed and <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/02\/18\/there-are-7-billion-mobile-devices-on-earth-almost-one-for-each-person\/\">mobile computing became the thing<\/a>, the tech industry crept up into the seven-by-seven mile peninsula that is San Francisco. The city\u2019s South of Market district is now nearly a strip mall of tech startups.<\/p>\n<p>But tucked away in one of the neighborhood\u2019s utilitarian office buildings is a technology company that harkens back to the early days of Silicon Valley: Planet Labs, founded by former <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/12\/20\/nasa-unveils-valkyrie-a-humanoid-robot-destined-for-space-exploration\/\">NASA<\/a> engineers, which builds <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2012\/12\/12\/the-awesomeness-of-satellites\/\">satellites<\/a> to photograph the Earth. Even so, the company doesn\u2019t need a ton of space: Its satellites are about the size of a breadbox. The company recently recruited a batch of Stanford University students and built 28 satellites in 17 days in its cramped SoMa offices (pictured above).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/03\/02\/fleet-of-toaster-sized-satellites-will-orbit-earth-provide-near-real-time-surveillance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Scott \u2014 Singularity Hub Silicon Valley sprung up on big open stretches of land where military installations had once been. Early semiconductor and computing businesses needed the space. But as Moore\u2019s law progressed and mobile computing became the thing, the tech industry crept up into the seven-by-seven mile peninsula that is San Francisco. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47208,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions\/47208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}