Planet Money Satellite Launch

Formerly cosmogia inc is an american private earth imaging company based in san francisco california.
Planet money satellite launch. Pt from cape canaveral air force station and the booster landed about nine minutes later on the droneship of course i still love you. The launch went off on schedule tuesday morning at 7 31 a m. The company designs and manufactures triple cubesat miniature satellites called doves that are then delivered into orbit as secondary payloads on other rocket launch missions. Spacex s falcon 9 rocket will carry 58 starlink satellites and three skysat earth imaging satellites for planet labs into low earth orbit on tuesday 18 august 2020 by cheryl kahla 2020 08 17 16 32.
Their goal is to image the entirety of the earth daily to monitor changes and pinpoint trends. There is a lot that can go wrong when going to space and it s a. How to launch a satellite into space. For our team this is a major milestone.
It s launch day for the planet money satellite pod 1 and our intrepid planeteers discover all the superstitions and complications of going to space. This is not just a launch or a world record for that matter. Spacex successfully launched its first starlink rideshare mission into orbit today june 13 lofting 58 starlink internet satellites along with three earth observation satellites before nailing a. Today planet successfully launched 88 dove satellites to orbit the largest satellite constellation ever to reach orbit.
With these satellites in orbit planet will reach its mission 1. We eat the traditional pancake breakfast. The ability to image all of earth s landmass every day. After tackling topics such as how to make a t shirt and how to drill for oil the planet money podcast team at national public radio has a new topic to explore.
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