On: Japan’s New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth E...

[branchan]

Uhhh, this spacecraft is for a totally different application.

Planet Labs doves are in LEO for low earth observation. This Japanese one is a weather satellite to monitor the area around Japan.

[bargl → branchan]

Yup that's what I was getting at, my first thought was that they'd be competing then I looked at the use cases and I wanted to point out that they were different, but I might have been the only one who thought that in the first place :-)