Terra Bella (fka Skybox Imaging)
Terra Bella, originally founded in 2009 as Skybox Imaging (Mountain View, California), was a satellite imaging and geospatial analytics company that built and operated the SkySat constellation of high-resolution Earth-observation satellites. Google acquired Skybox Imaging in 2014 for roughly $500 million and rebranded it Terra Bella. In 2017 Alphabet/Google sold Terra Bella and its SkySat satellites to Planet Labs, folding the business into Planet's Earth-observation operations. Terra Bella no longer exists as an independent operating entity and publishes no independent developer portal, API, or SDK surface; its capabilities live on inside Planet Labs. Surfaced as a portfolio company of bessemer-venture-partners.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
Terra Bella (fka Skybox Imaging) is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Terra Bella (fka Skybox Imaging) scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Terra Bella (fka Skybox Imaging) is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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