How Planet Labs Could Have Found The Missing Malaysia Air Flight

Hundreds of little, cheap satellites everywhere in orbit, taking pictures of every place on Earth every day, make the planet a lot smaller.

At a time when it feels like we're all under constant surveillance, the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 is all the more baffling. How, the world is still wondering, can an entire passenger jet disappear into thin air? Nobody knows for sure. But Will Marshall, co-founder and CEO of the satellite company, Planet Labs, believes that vanishing acts like that may not be possible in the future.

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