Google Skybox Imaging acquired for $ 500 million, converted 370 million euros. Skybox is an American company that specializes in providing images of the earth via cheap satellites.
In the first instance, should the acquisition help Google to update the images for Google Maps to obtain, but in the future hopes to Google that the satellites can assist in the deployment of internet to remote areas. “That is an area where we have long been interested in”, Google in a short communication on the acquisition known.
Skybox Imaging claims to be the smallest satellite for taking images at high resolution until now. The American company was founded in 2009 and focuses on it as cheap as possible to produce the small satellites. In november last year brought the company its first artificial satellite in orbit around the earth, the SkySat-1.
Earlier this month appeared already the rumor that Google is more than a billion dollars investing in a project to have satellites, the internet to remote areas. In addition, Google has Project Loon, in which balloons are deployed to areas where there is still no internet, of wireless connections to provide. Furthermore, Google’s Titan Aerospace to solar-powered drones that internet access to remote areas.
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