Engineering:EarthNow

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EarthNow is a Seattle-based startup company aiming to blanket the Earth with live satellite video coverage, initially aiming to provide services to governments and large-enterprise customers.[1] The company was founded in 2017[2] and has backers including Bill Gates, Intellectual Ventures, Airbus, SoftBank and OneWeb founder Greg Wyler.[1]

The satellite network is to be deployed as a constellation of dozens of 230 kilograms (500 lb) satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO).[3]

Manufacturing is expected to be done in Florida.[4]

The intent is to provide a "'live and unfiltered' video stream that will be used to monitor illegal fishing, detect natural disasters," monitor migrating whales, observing war zones, on-demand data on crop health,[4] and whatever uses people put on them.[5]

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