Terra Bella (fka Skybox Imaging)

Terra Bella, originally founded in 2009 as Skybox Imaging (Mountain View, California), was a satellite imaging and geospatial analytics company that built and operated the SkySat constellation of high-resolution Earth-observation satellites. Google acquired Skybox Imaging in 2014 for roughly $500 million and rebranded it Terra Bella. In 2017 Alphabet/Google sold Terra Bella and its SkySat satellites to Planet Labs, folding the business into Planet's Earth-observation operations. Terra Bella no longer exists as an independent operating entity and publishes no independent developer portal, API, or SDK surface; its capabilities live on inside Planet Labs. Surfaced as a portfolio company of bessemer-venture-partners.

Terra Bella (fka Skybox Imaging) is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Deep Tech, Satellite Imaging, Earth Observation, and Geospatial.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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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)

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name: Terra Bella (fka Skybox Imaging)
description: Terra Bella, originally founded in 2009 as Skybox Imaging (Mountain View, California), was a satellite imaging
  and geospatial analytics company that built and operated the SkySat constellation of high-resolution Earth-observation satellites.
  Google acquired Skybox Imaging in 2014 for roughly $500 million and rebranded it Terra Bella. In 2017 Alphabet/Google sold
  Terra Bella and its SkySat satellites to Planet Labs, folding the business into Planet's Earth-observation operations. Terra
  Bella no longer exists as an independent operating entity and publishes no independent developer portal, API, or SDK surface;
  its capabilities live on inside Planet Labs. Surfaced as a portfolio company of bessemer-venture-partners.
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Deep Tech
- Satellite Imaging
- Earth Observation
- Geospatial
- Space
- Acquired
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- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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