Planet Labs PBC, known as Planet, is an American Earth imaging company that operates a large fleet of satellites, including the Dove and SkySat constellations. They provide daily, high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial solutions used for various applications like climate monitoring, agriculture, and disaster response. Planet's major partners and customers include governments, Google, and organizations in agriculture, forestry, and intelligence. The company's mission is to image the entire Earth every day to monitor changes and make the data accessible.
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Planet and NVIDIA are collaborating to use GPUs to accelerate satellite imagery processing and insight generation.
Planet’s NVIDIA CUDA-based implementation delivers orders-of-magnitude acceleration over legacy CPU-based ground processing.
Eutelsat has market access in 180 countries and serves the entire planet, including all oceans and the air.
Aetherflux, Axiom Space, Kepler Communications, Planet Sophia Space, and Starcloud are working with Nvidia on space missions.
Planet has recent partnerships to build and launch dedicated satellites for the governments of Japan, Germany, and Sweden.
Planet Labs has integrated NVIDIA-accelerated computing from space to ground to help compress automated identification of battlefield anomalies.
James Mason is chief space officer of Planet.
Planet is partnering with Google on Project Suncatcher to test space-based compute infrastructure.
Satellogic says Merlin will provide daily mapping of the entire planet with one-meter spatial resolution.
Planet Labs’ defense and intelligence sector revenue grew 70% year over year in Q3 2025.
Planet is flying GPUs on its satellites.
Planet has a multi-year, nine-figure Earth observation contract from Sweden.
Planet’s Global Monitoring Service and Maritime Domain Awareness solutions were built to meet defense needs for automated change detection, alerting, and vessel tracking.
Planet Labs reported record Q3 2025 revenue of $81.3 million.
Planet Labs is using Nvidia technology for in-space computing applications.
Planet Labs expanded the blackout area to include all of Iran and nearby allied bases, in addition to the Gulf States and existing conflict zones.
Planet Labs’ blackout severely limits public access to up-to-date imagery over the affected region.
Planet Labs implemented the blackout to proactively limit the risk of misuse of its data in the conflict and to prevent imagery from being tactically leveraged to target allied and NATO-partner personnel and civilians.
Planet Labs consulted experts inside and outside of government before extending the commercial access restrictions, and the decision was not the result of a request from any government entity.
Planet Labs is attempting to deny Iran’s ability to use timely commercial Earth-observation data to target allied bases.