Skybox Imaging satellite imagery of Washington.

Commercially focused satellite imagery firms that have emerged on a wave of Silicon Valley venture capital could gain a major U.S. government customer as early as 2017: the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

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Mike Gruss is the chief content and strategy officer at SpaceNews. From 2013 to 2016 he was a senior reporter at SpaceNews covering military space. Previously, he was editor in chief of Sightline Media Group and worked as a reporter and columnist for...