Capella Space – Empowering Satellite Photography

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Shooting satellite photography is suboptimal at night. It's also hard to get a good picture through a cloud. But it's night on 50% of the globe at any given time. What's more, another 50% of earth is covered in clouds. (That means there are parts of the planet that are both dark and clouded.) All in all, only a certain percentage of satellite photos are actually usable. We're taking a lot of pictures of indistinguishable darkness.
This is where Capella Space comes in, with tiny, backpack-sized satellites that can shoot at night and through clouds. "Because of that," explains Payam Banazedeh, "We've got an unique opportunity to monitor important places around the world… completely regardless of what the weather and light conditions are."
Hit play to learn more about Capella Space and their new satellite technology. Subscribe, review, and if you can, donate some BitCoin to the cause. Every little bit helps.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.7	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,
0:23.0	blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:26.4	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. My guest today is Pam Benazade,
0:32.9	co-founder, CEO of Capella Space. Pam, how are you doing?
0:36.9	No bad. Good to be with you. Yeah, how are you doing? No, bad.
0:38.3	Good to be with you.
0:40.5	Yeah, thanks for coming.
0:41.1	I appreciate it.
0:44.8	So would you tell folks, what does Capella Space do?
0:45.5	Sure.
0:51.0	Yeah, we're a Silicon Valley-based company, and what we do, we build tiny little satellite size of a backpack, and the satellites are quite capable. We can see
0:56.2	through clouds. We can see at nighttime. We can see through fog or haze, any sort of pollution.
1:02.3	But the capability to be able to see through clouds at nighttime is quite big. In fact,
1:08.0	half the earth at any given time, as you might know, is enjoying the nighttime, and then about 50% another half of the earth at any given time is covered with clouds.
1:20.1	Now, those are not mutually exclusive.
1:21.9	If you combine those two together, about 75% of Earth at any given time, it's either cloudy or nighttime or a combination of the two.
1:32.9	So the majority of satellites use optical imagery. And optical imagery works just like your phone.
1:39.0	If you take your phone in a dark room, the picture is not going to look that pretty. It's going to be dark.
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