Will Marshall
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Will Marshall
@Will4Planet
Co-Founder & CEO of Planet -- building little spaceships to help us to take care of our favourite spaceship, the Earth :)
- 50 yrs ago today, this shot was taken. NASA put a fricking car on the Moon. Arguably the pinnacle of the first space age.🚀🌙🧑🚀 Note: GM designed & built this foldable, electric car for lunar terrain in 17months; b4 squashing EV was even a twinkle in their eye😂
- We took a pic of the Great Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn from space! This was taken yesterday, on the Winter Solstice, by a SkySat. Two beautiful globes in one telescope field of view! @planetlabs
- We're partnering with @Google to build & launch sats for their new Project Suncatcher! ☀️🛰️ This bold moonshot will test their TPUs in space as an experiment to harness the 24/7, unfiltered sun for power, and cold background of space for cooling, towards a futureOur TPUs are headed to space! Inspired by our history of moonshots, from quantum computing to autonomous driving, Project Suncatcher is exploring how we could one day build scalable ML compute systems in space, harnessing more of the sun’s power (which emits more power than 100
- Ridgecrest Earthquake before (4th July) & after (6th July) images from Doves, clearly showing surface rupture. Thx @rsimmon @PlanetLabs @USGS RT @USGSBigQuakes Prelim M7.1 Earthquake 35.767, -117.605 Jul-06 03:19 UTC, updates go.usa.gov/xyDfq
- Success!!! First methane and CO2 plumes detected from Tanager-1's hyperspectral sensor! These are from Texas, Pakistan, and South Africa. With this data, we aim to enhance accountability and enable climate action. Thanks to our fantastic public-private partnership with
- Oh wow, the wildflowers are blooming in California! Here is Carrizo Plain. Can almost smell them from 500km up!
- Excited to announce @planet is going public! Proud of our team; their dedication & hard work in turning audacious ideas into reality over 10yrs. Thanks to our customers for loyalty & to our investors for their support🙏 Ad astra par terra! 🚀🛰️🌍 👇 planet.com/investors/pres…
- Thrilled to announce our next-generation monitoring satellites: the Owl fleet. 🦉 🛰️ Owls will continue our unique daily global scan, but move us from 3-m to 1-meter class – a sharper view! + with Nvidia GPUs they’ll be smarter! That’s why we're calling them Owls: they’ve big
00:00 - I've seen rockets go up live b4, but not land. Damn! Totally sci-fi. Listen to that sonic boom at the end! Thx @SpaceX
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