PlanetiQ, founded in 2012, is a weather and climate data service provider in the space industry. They operate a constellation of small satellites equipped with proprietary "Pyxis" GPS Radio Occultation (GPS-RO) sensors to collect atmospheric data. PlanetiQ provides high-resolution weather data for improved forecasting, climate monitoring, and space weather prediction, and their customers include organizations like NOAA, who utilize their data for weather forecasting and atmospheric research.
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Under the NOAA contracts, GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire will provide radio occultation datasets that reveal weather conditions in Earth’s ionosphere.
NOAA will evaluate data supplied by GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire over approximately 12 months.
The atmospheric sounding data from GNOMES-3 were verified as operational and delivered to PlanetiQ's customers on 2022-04-08, seven days after launch.
Iridium, PlanetiQ, and GeoOptics joined a coalition of 90 companies, organizations, and associations seeking to overturn the FCC’s April 2020 approval for Ligado’s terrestrial use of L-band spectrum.
PlanetiQ launched its GNOMES-3 satellite on Transporter-4 to collect GNSS radio occultation data for weather forecasting.
PlanetIQ is integrating and testing GNOMES-3, a satellite scheduled to launch in March on the SpaceX Transporter-4 rideshare flight to sun-synchronous orbit.
PlanetIQ was founded in 2012 by scientists and engineers who worked on COSMIC, COSMIC-2, KOMPSAT-5, TerraSAR-X, Tandem-X, and Paz missions and payloads.
PlanetIQ plans to launch satellites in pairs after GNOMES-3 to build a 20-satellite constellation capable of providing 50,000 daily radio occultation soundings.
PlanetIQ is raising capital to expedite deployment of a 20-satellite GNSS radio occultation constellation by 2024.
PlanetIQ’s 2018 satellite failure prevented the company from delivering data during the early phases of NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot.
NASA’s TROPICS Pathfinder on Transporter-2 deployed PlanetiQ’s GNOMES-2 payload.
PlanetiQ is building additional satellites to launch within the next two years as it builds out a full constellation of 20 low Earth orbit smallsats.
Redwire’s subsidiary Roccor delivered two sets of solar arrays to PlanetiQ dating back to 2018.
Redwire has been selected by PlanetiQ to supply solar arrays for PlanetiQ’s HD GPS-RO weather satellites.
PlanetiQ will launch its GNSS Navigation and Occultation Measurement Satellite (GNOMES) on the SpaceX Transporter-2 mission from Cape Canaveral in June 2021.
SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission delivered 143 payloads, including satellites from Spire, Capella, NanoAvionics, Spaceflight, HawkEye, PlanetiQ, Astro Digital, D-Orbit, and 10 Starlink satellites.
SpaceX deployed the Tyvak-0172 smallsat and PlanetiQ’s Gnomes-1 commercial weather smallsat about an hour after liftoff on 2020-08-30.
The Joint LEO Sounding Mission Study will evaluate small satellites equipped with Ball microwave instruments, L3Harris infrared sounders, and PlanetiQ global navigation satellite system radio occultation receivers for weather-gathering capability.
Only GeoOptics and Spire submitted radio occultation data for CWDP Round 2 because PlanetIQ had not launched its first satellite.
In CWDP Round 2, NOAA awarded contracts to GeoOptics, Spire Global, and PlanetIQ.