Skybox in the News
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June 18th, 2013Looking down from 500 miles above Earth’s surface, you could watch the FedEx Custom Critical Delivery truck move along 3,140 miles of highway in 47 and a half hours of nonstop driving. Starting off in Wilmington, Massachusetts, the truck merges south onto I-95 and keeps right at the fork for I-90. Then it winds its way across the width of New York State, charging past the airport in Toledo, through the flatlands of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Wyoming, snaking down the mountain passes and switchbacks above Salt Lake City, across the Nevada deserts and over to Sacramento, then down the highway toward San Jose and off at the California 237 exit, headed for Mountain View. -
May 28th, 2013Satellite-imagery startup Skybox Imaging of Mountain View, Calif., has signed a multiyear agreement with Japan Space Imaging of Tokyo to bring high-resolution imagery to the Japanese market, the U.S. company said in a May 14 announcement. -
May 14th, 2013Skybox Imaging (Skybox), an emerging provider of timely high-resolution satellite imagery and full motion video, today announced it has entered into a multi-year, strategic partnership with Japan Space Imaging (JSI), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, to provide high-resolution imagery and full motion commercial video to the Japanese market. -
May 1st, 2013What if you could get cheap satellite pictures, no more than a few hours old, of any spot on the globe? What would you do with them? Skybox Imaging, a four-year-old company based in Mountain View, Calif.—just across the freeway from spy-satellite pioneer Lockheed Martin Corp.—wants to find out. The company’s first satellites go up this year, and within the next five years Skybox expects to have a constellation of 24 satellites imaging the globe, able to view any spot on Earth three or four times a day. -
April 24th, 2013Google isn’t the only company working on mapping out the entire world with satellite imagery and detailed information about every nook and cranny in the universe. Two companies are teaming up to create publishable information on your site or news article using detailed satellite imagery and advanced publishing tools. -
April 17th, 2013Four teams of high school students received top honors at the 2013 Innovation Summit, the final round of competition for the 2012-2013 Spirit of Innovation Challenge. Their efforts to create a product or service to benefit humanity earned winning teams a total of more than $50,000 in cash prizes and awards.
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April 2nd, 2013Mountain View’s Skybox Imaging began as an assignment in a technology entrepreneurship class at Stanford University. Now it’s a $91-million company preparing to send its first miniature satellite into space at the end of the summer. -
April 2nd, 2013In the technology business, building a thriving and progressive user ecosystem around a platform is about as Mom-and-apple-pie as you can get. We all intuitively acknowledge that it’s one of the metrics for success. -
April 1st, 2013In order to recognize the fastest growing technology companies in Silicon Valley area, Lead411 is proud to announce the release of its "Hottest Companies in the Silicon Valley" award. -
March 26th, 2013Startup satellite Earth imaging company Skybox Imaging has been able to raise more than $90 million in equity from an otherwise sheepish market by crafting a business model that permits capital investment to be spent in increments as the project proves itself, Skybox Chief Executive Tom Ingersoll said.