Will Marshall

Well, firstly, I mean, most people's background of successful startups, they dropped out.

So obviously I failed on that front.

But we left NASA with this idea that we could really innovate and make satellite costs way cheaper and bring a totally new kind of data set that's possible by putting up far more satellites, doing Earth imaging, scanning the whole Earth every day.

And the reason for that wasn't just frivolous and it's cool tech, and it is cool tech, and I can talk about that, but it's that this data could help the earth economy, could help insurance, finance, agriculture,

and governments with floods and fires and defense and intelligence applications.

And we saw that more rapid information about the Earth could help us make smarter decisions.

It could be like the Bloomberg terminal with data feeds, but for Earth imaging, powering businesses all around the world, countries all around the world with smarter data to make smarter decisions.

Yeah, I mean, mainly it's up-to-date data.

So, basically, yes, there have been satellites for decades, but they haven't taken the whole world every day or anything close.

So, basically, most of the existing or prior satellites

were taking high-resolution snapshots of very specific targets of interest for military applications and certain other high-prized applications.

But what we went about doing was having a commercial fleet, so many satellites, that would just cover the whole Earth every day.

Then that opens up loads of other applications areas, agriculture, forestry, disaster response, all those sorts of things.

And so it's just a completely different model.

We image over 200 million square kilometers a day.

That's the whole earth, land mass, and some of the oceans.

because we do maritime domain awareness as well.

And so that's just roughly, just to give you a sense, about 100 times more in coverage than any prior commercial Earth imaging satellite system.

MR. Yeah.

Well, we split it sort of into three buckets.