Thursday, 13 October 2016

This company is launching 50 satellites to photograph the entire world every day


APIs – the things that let you pull information from one app to another – are the backbone of the software you use on a daily basis. But there's no API for live data from satellites. Axelspace is trying to create just that. The Japanese company has big dreams, and I talked to founder and CEO Yuya Nakamura about his vision for building a space data API anyone can use. In 2008, the company was founded around a different idea - giving companies the opportunity to have a private satellite orbiting the Earth. It started developing their own microsatellites and working…

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