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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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Deep TechSatellite ImagingEarth Observation Geospatial Space Acquired

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: terra-bella-fka-skybox-imaging
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/terra-bella-fka-skybox-imaging.png
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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/terra-bella-fka-skybox-imaging/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-status: acquired
x-successor: planet-labs
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Deep Tech
- Satellite Imaging
- Earth Observation
- Geospatial
- Space
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1

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