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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NASA’s 14 Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition awardees include Airbus DS Geo, GHGSat, Hydrosat, ICEYE US, ImageSat International, Kuva US, Muon Space, Orbital Sidekick, OroraTech USA, Planet Labs Federal, PlanetiQ, SATLANTIS US, Tomorrow.io, and Wyvern.
NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition contract awardees include Airbus DS Geo Inc., GHGSat Inc., Hydrosat Inc., ICEYE US Inc., ImageSat International, Kuva US Inc., Muon Space Inc., Orbital Sidekick Inc., OroraTech USA Inc., Planet Labs Federal Inc., Space Sciences and Engineering LLC doing business as PlanetiQ, SATLANTIS US, Tomorrow Companies Inc. doing business as Tomorrow.io, and Wyvern Inc.
NASA contract awardees include Airbus DS Geo Inc., GHGSat Inc., Hydrosat Inc., ICEYE US Inc., ImageSat International, Kuva US Inc., Muon Space Inc., Orbital Sidekick Inc., OroraTech USA Inc., Planet Labs Federal Inc., Space Sciences and Engineering LLC doing business as PlanetiQ, SATLANTIS US, Tomorrow Companies Inc. doing business as Tomorrow.io, and Wyvern Inc.
The U.S. Air Force awarded PlanetiQ a $15 million, 48-month Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract to support development and launch of spacecraft that will deliver weather data.
PlanetiQ will provide on-orbit data delivery after spacecraft commissioning during the contract period.
PlanetiQ’s next-generation receiver is intended to support ocean surface wind measurement, sea state characterization, and soil moisture monitoring over land.
PlanetiQ’s GNSS-PRO capability has demonstrated strong efficacy for measuring precipitation.
PlanetiQ currently operates a global constellation of satellites as a commercial provider of GNSS-RO data.
PlanetiQ’s STRATFI mission will advance GNSS-RO, GNSS-PRO, and GNSS-R capabilities.
PlanetiQ’s STRATFI work will support artificial intelligence model training, data assimilation, and performance evaluation across the Department of the Air Force.
PlanetiQ’s STRATFI program includes development of advanced data assimilation techniques to integrate enhanced GNSS-PRO data into Numerical Weather Prediction models.
PlanetiQ’s satellites include advanced receivers capable of capturing high signal-to-noise-ratio GNSS-RO and GNSS-PRO measurements.
The contract awarded to PlanetiQ is NOAA's single largest commercial satellite weather data purchase.
NOAA has selected PlanetiQ to receive a $24.3 million contract from the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS).
Under the Radio Occultation Data Buy II (RODB-2) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract, PlanetiQ will provide 2,200 GNSS-RO profiles per day to support NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Program.
PlanetiQ is building, launching, and operating a commercial constellation of GNSS-RO weather satellites with an eventual full constellation goal of 20 low Earth orbit satellites.
PlanetiQ successfully launched the GNOMES-5 satellite on 2024-08-16 from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
PlanetiQ received a Delivery Order (DO-4) contract valued at more than $6,500,000 to supply NOAA with proprietary radio occultation data for one year starting on 2024-09-18.
NOAA awarded radio occultation data contracts to GeoOptics in February 2021, to Spire in August 2021, to Spire again in February 2022, and to PlanetIQ in April 2023.
PlanetiQ scheduled its first satellite to launch in March 2020 on a Falcon 9 rocket.