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by winstontri 1968 days ago
I'll assume you're referencing SkySat imagery, as that's the more direct comparison to our product!

Different is more of an over-arching theme, so I'll focus on how we're better and cheaper. We are better in the sense that our native resolution will be 25x finer than theirs - Planet SkySats have 50cm native GSD and our satellites will have 10cm native GSD. This is "better" in the sense that we're more resolute, but we do sacrifice coverage.

As far as cheaper goes, the commercial space industry has made a lot of progress in the past 10 years, and as a result, getting to space has gotten substantially cheaper. This may be slightly oversimplified, but we're hoping cheaper costs for us will transfer over to our users.