Google's involvement in the space industry primarily revolves around its Google Public Sector division, which collaborates with organizations like The Aerospace Corporation and NASA, providing cutting-edge AI and machine learning tools, cloud computing services (like Vertex AI), and high-performance computing to advance space-related projects, including space weather forecasting and air quality monitoring. Google's technologies are also used in research projects related to aeronautics. Key partners include NASA, The Aerospace Corporation, and the U.S. Space Force.
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Google started Loon in 2012 as part of X and spun it out into a separate company in 2018.
In 2009 Eric Gundersen started building what became Mapbox as an alternative to Google Maps.
The Google Cloud-hosted Interim Data Facility is scalable in response to usage and is expected to be critical when members of the Rubin Science Community begin accessing the facility in late 2021.
Astronomers will access the LSST dataset via the browser-based Rubin Science Platform deployed on the Google Cloud-hosted Interim Data Facility because the LSST dataset will be too large to download and store locally.
The Rubin Science Platform deployed on the Google Cloud-hosted IDF will provide astronomy dataset previews and the ability to experience LSST-like data in a real-time analysis environment.
Astronomers will log into the data center on the Google Cloud Platform and perform analysis next to the datasets hosted for the Rubin Science Platform.
Google signed a three-year agreement on 2020-12-07 to host data for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on the Google Cloud Platform.
Plex-Earth switched from using only Google Earth imagery to offering images from Airbus, Maxar, Nearmap, and Hexagon.
Plex-Earth previously offered only Google Earth imagery before expanding to multiple commercial imagery providers.
CoreLogic is expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud to provide new solutions to participants in the global housing economy.
The work planned under the NOAA-Google OTA is intended to enhance NOAA’s ability to leverage large volumes and diverse types of environmental data to improve prediction of extreme weather events such as hurricanes and tornadoes.
The Google Earth Engine integration allows Planet customers to order Planet imagery directly to their GEE accounts using Planet APIs and GUIs at no additional cost.
Progressive Democrats support the Justice Department’s effort to take legal action against Alphabet’s Google.
Planet acquired the SkySat constellation from Google in 2017.
Google acquired Skybox Imaging in 2014 for a reported $500,000,000.
Mark Matossian worked at Google for 13 years and specialized in scaling up new products and services across Asia, Europe, and South America.
Planet purchased Terra Bella from Google in 2017.
Team Hakuto had planned to fly Sorato on landers developed by Astrobotic and TeamIndus, but neither company launched before the Google Lunar X Prize competition ended in early 2018.
If the Google Lunar X Prize had not been canceled, ispace planned to launch SORATO in 2018 and SORATO would have needed to travel at least 500 m on the lunar surface and transmit visual data back to Earth to claim the prize.
PTScientists was a competitor in the Google Lunar X Prize, which offered a $20,000,000 grand prize for the first privately developed lunar lander.