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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At the time of this reporting, Planet Labs was the only Earth-observation provider to publicly announce limitations on commercial access over the region.
Planet Labs extended restrictions for commercial access to its Earth-observation data covering the Middle East from 96 hours to two weeks.
Planet Labs’ satellites can revisit sites more frequently than many other Earth-observation providers.
Vantor will apply advanced analytics to fused sensor data to identify physical changes across the planet's surface.
Jerry Xuan estimates that the first spectrum of an Earth-like planet and searches for biosignatures such as oxygen and ozone could occur in about 20–30 years.
The satellites capturing the raw imagery used by MizarVision are American-operated by companies including Vantor and Planet Labs.
Mapping brightness variations in debris discs allows astronomers to infer where gravitational perturbations may be concentrating dust even when the perturbing planet cannot be seen directly with current instruments.
When a circumbinary planet's periastron enters the instability zone, the planet is either ejected to the outer system or driven close enough to be engulfed or tidally disrupted by the stars.
The closest HR 8799 planet orbits at a distance about 15 times the Earth–Sun separation.
The high-resolution imagery circulated by MizarVision was sourced from Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence) at approximately 0.3-meter resolution and from Planet Labs for wide-swath maritime imagery.
The ARKS survey targets older, lower-mass 'teenage' debris discs that are much fainter and harder to image, filling a stage between early planet formation and mature planetary systems.
Planet Labs PBC provided high-resolution satellite imagery showing the aftermath of coordinated U.S. and Israeli airstrikes in central Tehran.
Planet Labs and other commercial Earth observation providers are monitoring the deployment of surviving S-300 and Bavar-373 air defense units in the region.
Planet Labs conducted the visual assessment using a combination of PlanetScope Dove and SkySat constellations.
The Planet Labs imagery shows thick plumes of smoke rising from the Leadership House compound of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following the opening wave of Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28.
Commercial satellite imagery providers Vantor and Planet Labs have produced imagery showing the results of US and Israeli strikes.
Google’s Project Suncatcher plans to fly two prototype satellites equipped with Google-developed TPU AI chips in 2027 in partnership with Planet.
Uranus' magnetosphere is tilted by nearly 60 degrees and is offset from the planet's center.
Planet Labs operates satellites that detect methane leaks.
Planet Labs signed a $283 million multi-year deal with the German government for satellite imagery and analytics services in 2025.