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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The EscaPADE mission will analyze how Mars’ magnetic field guides particle flows around the planet.
The Escape twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather.
Commercial satellite companies like Maxar, Planet Labs, and BlackSky provided high-resolution images to monitor troop movements in Ukraine.
A gap spanning about 40 astronomical units between the inner envelope and protoplanetary disk of HD 34282 marks a potential site of planet formation.
Ashley Johnson is the President and CFO of Planet.
The Escapade mission involves placing two identical probes in orbit around Mars to analyze the interaction between solar wind and the planet's magnetosphere.
Planet has contracts with the German government, NATO, the US Department of Defense, the US Navy, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
The research team used NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data and an algorithm to identify repeated brightness dips signaling a planet passing its host star.
Planet continues to see significant demand from its global defense and intelligence customers.
Planet signed an 8-figure contract renewal with a longstanding international defense and intelligence customer for high-resolution imagery.
Project Suncatcher plans to deploy an in-orbit demonstration with Planet in early 2027.
Planet stated that advancing complex, high-performance computation in space aligns with its technology development roadmap for the Owl mission.
Google is working with Planet to launch two prototype satellites by early 2027 to test Google's models and TPU hardware in space.
The LEO observation satellite constellation will be built using the next-generation optical observation satellite 'Pelican' developed by Planet Labs.
Rocket Lab is planning to launch a private science mission to Venus with MIT, titled the Venus Life Finder, to study the planet's dense clouds and search for signs of life.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch its Venus mission in 2028 to study the planet's atmosphere.
Sentinel-6 monitors the planet's oceans.
Chris Hadfield advises SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Astrolab, and Planet, and is a director of public and private companies.
The hotspot on WASP-18b is surrounded by a cooler ring along the planet's visible limbs.
A concentrated hotspot on WASP-18b marks the spot where starlight hits most directly, while winds are insufficient to spread the heat across the planet.