Skybox Imaging

Skybox Imaging was a high-resolution Earth-observation smallsat startup founded in 2009 out of Stanford University, building the SkySat constellation of small satellites to capture sub-meter commercial imagery and video. Backed by Canaan Partners among other venture investors, it was acquired by Google in 2014 for roughly $500M, renamed Terra Bella in 2016, and then sold to Planet Labs in 2017. The company no longer exists as an independent entity and publishes no live developer API, docs, or discovery surface; this profile is retained as a portfolio-graph node for canaan-partners.

Skybox Imaging is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Satellite Imagery, Earth Observation, Geospatial, and Remote Sensing.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanySatellite ImageryEarth ObservationGeospatialRemote SensingSpace

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: skybox-imaging
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name: Skybox Imaging
description: Skybox Imaging was a high-resolution Earth-observation smallsat startup founded in 2009 out of Stanford University,
  building the SkySat constellation of small satellites to capture sub-meter commercial imagery and video. Backed by Canaan
  Partners among other venture investors, it was acquired by Google in 2014 for roughly $500M, renamed Terra Bella in 2016,
  and then sold to Planet Labs in 2017. The company no longer exists as an independent entity and publishes no live developer
  API, docs, or discovery surface; this profile is retained as a portfolio-graph node for canaan-partners.
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Satellite Imagery
- Earth Observation
- Geospatial
- Remote Sensing
- Space
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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  email: info@apis.io
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