{"id":80587,"date":"2018-07-13T09:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/satellite-startups-turn-to-reinventing-broadband-mapping-and-other-industries"},"modified":"2018-07-13T09:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:42:31","slug":"satellite-startups-turn-to-reinventing-broadband-mapping-and-other-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/satellite-startups-turn-to-reinventing-broadband-mapping-and-other-industries","title":{"rendered":"Satellite startups turn to reinventing broadband, mapping and other industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/satellite-startups-turn-to-reinventing-broadband-mapping-and-other-industries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smartphones have disrupted transportation, payments and communication. But the underlying technology has tangentially changed a completely different sector: satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The advances made in miniaturizing technologies that put a computer in your pocket \u2014 cameras, batteries, processors, radio antennas \u2014 have also made it easier and cheaper for entrepreneurs to launch matter into space. And investors are taking notice.<\/p>\n<p>The chart below shows worldwide venture and PE investment in satellite technology companies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/08\/satellite-startups-turn-to-reinventing-broadband-mapping-and-other-industries\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/08\/satellite-startups-turn-to...ssion=true<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones have disrupted transportation, payments and communication. But the underlying technology has tangentially changed a completely different sector: satellites. The advances made in miniaturizing technologies that put a computer in your pocket \u2014 cameras, batteries, processors, radio antennas \u2014 have also made it easier and cheaper for entrepreneurs to launch matter into space. And investors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1965,1512,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mapping","category-mobile-phones","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80587","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}