Democratization of Space

Democratizing "New Space"

Planet Labs @ Planet.com

Planet Labs / GreenPolicy360

To image the entire Earth every day, Planet Labs has worked out that it needs 150 satellites in orbit concurrently...

Planet Labs democratizing space / Forbes - April 2014

Re/Code

How NASA led tech to the Cloud / WSJ - May 2012

NASA review

Pete Worden - NASA Ames departure - SpaceNews - Feb 2015 / It would be a profound shift to see the SDI guy, who helped launch 'new space' (and Planet Labs) continue his move from maverick military to earth/biology... so to speak

Worden told SpaceNews that the nine years he spent at Ames were the most enjoyable of his 40 years of public service.

“In the last nine years we have launched dozens of small, low-cost satellites – and helped ignite a major new industry in this area. Ames people have revitalized space biology and begun to apply the new field of synthetic biology,” Worden said via email Feb. 26. “Ames has provided entry technology for the emerging commercial space launch sector. We have helped launch small satellites working with a number of nations. And we’ve hosted and inspired thousands of students.”

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• OpenStack strategy

OpenStack "Cloud in a Box"

https://www.nebula.com/

• “New” model of Citizen Science

Micro-satellites, Nanosats

OTS components