Leo Wang is founder and CEO of Lucius. This is a turnkey solution for satellite constellation operators or imagery resellers to take orders and distribute data. The conversation covered the following topics:
1:14 Introducing Lucius.
1:51 Content creation.
13:13 Imagery sales and marketplaces commentary.
27:13 Platform to store humanitarian satellite data.
A key learning is that Lucius charges $USD25,000 a year for their satellite data ordering and distribution platform. Let’s carry on the point Kevin Bullock made in the episode about Development Seed…
…where a SpaceX launch costs nearly $USD70,000,000. Here he observed that if just 1% of the cost of those launches were spent on a platform to distribute the data during humanitarian disasters, that would make a strong impact. That is $USD700,000 for a SpaceX launch. Or 28 years to run Lucius.
Then on Feb 1st, Malcolm M. posted about a new web GIS he made Mapping Disasters. I’ll let him explain it:
It is fascinating to spin the globe and see the planetwide scope of the disasters these 4 operators have released data about. Some of whom are members of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters.
A day before that on Jan 31st, Wyvern announced they were releasing the world’s first free hyperspectral data for humanitarian disasters:
It is almost as though the industry is listening to the kinds of conversations we have been having in episodes since the LA fires on the podcast. But particularly responding, I suspect, to influential figures such as Kevin Bullock signaling the displeasure at this situation of a respected organization like Development Seed.
So, thanks Leo/Lucius for adding your voice and essential commercial perspective on why things are this way. It is also nice as we track developments here to see web developers like Malcolm and imagery providers like Wyvern respond how we all know should be happening. Naturally, Wyvern are a former podcast guest:
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