This is not an animation,
this is a video taken by the astronaut
looking out of the window.
It gives you a bit of a sense of
scale of our two satellites.
It's like some of the
smallest satellites ever
are being launched from
the biggest satellite ever.
And right at the end, the
solar array glints in the sun.
It's really cool. Wait for it.
Boom! Yeah. It's the money shot.
(Laughter)
So we didn't just launch
two of them like this,
we launched 28 of them.
It's the largest constellation of
Earth-imaging satellites in human history,
and it's going to provide a
completely radical new data set
about our changing planet.
But that's just the beginning.
You see, we're going to launch
more than 100 of these satellites
like these over the
course of the next year.
It's going to be the largest constellation
of satellites in human history.
And this is what it's going to do:
Acting in a single-orbit plane that
stays fixed with respect to the sun,
the Earth rotates underneath.