# Skybox Imaging

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/skybox-imaging/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Satellite Imagery, Earth Observation, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, Space

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/skybox-imaging/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.