The breathtaking LIVE satellite footage of Earth so accurate you can watch cars in the street and planes taking off. Footage reveals Tokyo, Bangkok, Baltimore, Las Vegas and Syria in HDShows planes taking off in Beijing. Footage was taken 6. Earth by the Sky.

Sat- 1 satellite. The satellite captured 9. Skybox Imaging plans to sell the footage to businesses in the near future. By. Mark Prigg. Published.

BST, 7 March 2. 01. BST, 8 March 2. 01. It is like Google Maps - but live. A San Francisco firm has released the first footage from a revolutionary satellite it is set to make available to the public. The footage shows planes landing at Beijing airport in stunning detail, so that individual planes can easily be identified, while cars can be seen driving around the airport. Scroll down for video..

A mine in Turkey captured using the Skybox satellite. Led by aerospace industry veteran Tom Ingersoll, Skybox has been working on additional satellites that should be easier to complete with Google's backing.

The newly released images also show Port Fuad in Egypt, with boats clearly visible in the harbour. Color Infrared Imagery was collected by Sky.

Sat- 1 on February 1. In other footage cars are seen moving on roads and vessels travelling through shipping lanes - all from a satellite positioned 6. The video was taken by the Sky. Sat- 1 satellite and showcases high- resolution views of Tokyo, Bangkok, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Aleppo, Syria. While it's currently available for free, the group, Skybox Imaging, plans to sell the footage to businesses in the near future.

Sky. Sat- 1, which was launched in November, captured up to 9. The U. S. group is now planning a constellation of 2. Earth. Its larger goal is to sell what it can analyse about the global economy to companies, providing details such as supply chain monitoring and the movement of humanitarian aid. The most revolutionary fact is that Sky. Sat- 1 was built and launched for more than an order of magnitude less cost than traditional sub- meter imaging satellites,’ said Tom Ingersoll, chief executive of Skybox.

Satellites today are capable of taking imagery better than a metre in resolution, but they weigh thousands of kilograms. Sky. Sat- 1 is 2. The circuitry that drives it is about the size of a phone book and consumes less power than a 1. Their small size means we can afford to launch lots of satellites, and provide you lots of timely, sub- meter imagery and video, along with powerful derived analytics,’ the group said on their website.

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Satellites today are capable of taking imagery clearer than a metre in resolution, but they weigh thousands of kilograms. Sky. Sat- 1 is 2. Shown here is a view of Abu Dhabi.

THE SKYSAT- 1 SATELLITESky. Sat- 1, which was launched in November, captured up to 9.

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Satellites. today are capable of taking imagery better than a metre in resolution. Sky. Sat- 1 is 2. The circuitry that drives it is about the size of a phone book and consumes less power than a 1. The U. S. group, Skybox Imaging, is now planning a constellation of 2. Earth.  Sky. Sat- 2, an identical version of Sky. Sat- 1, is scheduled to launch in early 2. Sky. Sat- 2, an identical version of Sky.

Sat- 1, is scheduled to launch in early 2. The firm worked with Mapbox to create the Beijing video.'This quick shot by Skybox’s Sky. Sat- 1 shows multiple planes landing at Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) airport in Beijing on December 3. Mapbox's Paul Goodman.'You can easily see a large plane landing on the runway at right. Using the video’s timestamp and public flight logs, Bruno identified this plane as Air China Limited flight 1.

Airbus 3. 30 flying from Guangzhou to Beijing. Operating as a codeshare, that flight was also listed as Shenzhen Airlines 1. United Airlines 7. SAS 9. 51. 0, Austrian 8.

Lufthansa 7. 28. 3.'The idea of video from space is very new but the benefit of seeing movement and direction over many frames is amazing. Seeing the aircraft headed to a specific terminal provided context to help identify it and watching cars move down a road shows directionality useful for better road classification.'San Francisco- based start- up, Skybox Imaging, used its Sky. Sat- 1 satellite to reveal high- resolution views of the Earth. Pictured here is Perth in Australia. Sky. Sat- 1, which was launched in November, is capable of capturing up to 9. Pictured here is a view of Perth. The circuitry that drives Sky.

Sat- 1 is about the size of a phone book and consumes less power than a 1. The satellite took this high defintion view of Nice in France.

This video grab, taken by Skybox, reveals high- resolution views of Tokyo, Bangkok, Baltimore, Las Vegas and Syria (pictured)Sky. Sat- 2, an identical version of Sky. Watch Arrow Season 2 Episode 11.

Sat- 1, is scheduled to launch in early 2. Pictured here is Somalia.

The U. S. group, Skybox Imaging, is now planning a constellation of 2. Earth. Pictured here is a power plant in Maryland.