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Skybox Imaging captures world’s first high-res HD video of Earth from space

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA: Skybox Imaging (Skybox) announced the release of the world's first high-resolution, high-definition video of Earth taken by a commercial remote sensing satellite.

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These videos were taken by SkySat-1, the first of Skybox's planned constellation of 24 satellites, and showcase high-resolution views of Tokyo, Bangkok, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Aleppo, Syria. The video clips have not yet been calibrated or tuned.

SkySat-1 captures up to 90-second video clips at 30 frames per second. The resolution is high enough to view objects like shipping containers that impact the global economy while maintaining a level of clarity that does not determine human activity.

SkySat-1 also captures some of the highest quality color imagery of any commercial satellite and is capable of sub-meter native color and near-infrared imagery.

"The most revolutionary fact is that SkySat-1 was built and launched for more than an order of magnitude less cost than traditional sub-meter imaging satellites," said Tom Ingersoll, CEO of Skybox. "This extremely high performance satellite is made possible by proprietary technologies developed by Skybox, including the integrated satellite and imaging systems designs, which enable Skybox to launch a constellation of satellites that can provide imagery timeliness, quality and dependability that was never before possible."

The business applications for satellite imagery and now, dynamic satellite video, are innumerable - ranging from supply chain monitoring to maritime awareness, industrial plant activity monitoring to environmental and humanitarian relief monitoring.

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