Google buys Skybox Imaging for half a billion dollars

American Internet giant Google is buying Skybox Imaging for $500 million, the company announced.

"We have concluded an agreement on the purchase of Skybox Imaging and are eagerly awaiting their arrival in the Google family," the company is pleased.

In April, Google acquired Titan Aerospace, a company specializing in the production of solar-powered drones, reports Hina.

Founded in 2009 in Silicon Valley, Skybox makes small Earth observation satellites that can take photos and record highly detailed records of locations.

For now, the company has only one functional satellite, but plans to deploy a dozen of them by the end of 2016.

Skybox can enable Google to edit its image databases included in the Google Earth and Google Maps applications and improve their quality.

Skybox Imaging is a company engaged in the development of satellites and advanced analysis of the high-quality images they produce with them.

"Their satellites will help us update our maps to be as accurate as possible. We hope that the Skybox team and their technology will help us in better access to the Internet and in calling for help in the event of a disaster, two domains that Google has been interested in for a long time," she explained. is a company.