A ‘small but huge’ thing is floating high above our heads !
A Nano satellite is 10 cm x 10 cm x13.5 cm
This ‘ CubeSat ‘ is a most commercially impactful invention
Why?
Because this nano satellite, the size of a small shoebox , is made from fairly standard ‘in existence ‘ components, is incredibly cheaper to send to space than conventional satellites (500 million to $1billion). In comparison , a nanosat can be made and launched ~ $100K
Planet labs – founded 2010 ( in Silicon Valley !) – has already sent about 200 such satellites to space.
They are used extensively for image and data mapping.
Billions of images about everything and anything – traffic, green cover, new construction, crops, river flow, ships at sea and a million other things are available at any time on any given day.
This is commercial gold.
If I know every hour how many cars are on the road Delhi to Bombay I can plan fuel, beer, toll logistics, bus seats , hotel room demand and countless other things , both anticipated as well as unanticipated.
Imagine everything of commercial interest is being seen by thousands of eyes from up beyond the sky. And there is computing power to make sense of it.
Imagine that !!
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