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 Labs has shipped Pelicans 5 and 6 along with 36 SuperDove cubesats of Flock 4H for launch on the SpaceX Transporter-15 mission.
The U.S. Navy awarded Planet a $7.5 million contract renewal for vessel detection and monitoring over the Pacific.
The team led by Víctor Almendros-Abad discovered that the young planet's accretion rate is not constant.
Observations made with the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory reveal that the rogue planet is consuming gas and dust at a rate of six billion tons per second.
The rogue planet studied has a mass five to ten times that of Jupiter and is located about 620 light-years away in the Chameleon constellation.
The proposed Uranus mission is envisioned for the 2030s, assuming use of a Falcon Heavy expendable rocket and anticipating arrival at the planet before 2050.
At its closest approach to Mars, 3I/ATLAS will be approximately 30 million kilometers from the red planet.
Planet will open a new manufacturing facility in Germany to produce its next-generation Pelican satellites.
Planet was awarded a €240 million contract from the German government to provide dedicated capacity on its Pelican satellites over specific European regions.
Planet plans to open a new production facility in Berlin on 25 September to build its next-generation Pelican satellites.
The new Berlin facility will double Planet's overall production capacity for the Pelican constellation.
Planet customers can purchase Tanager core imagery to support analyses of Earth’s surface and atmosphere.
Data products produced by the Tanager-1 satellite launched by Planet are now generally available.
Planet has introduced a new Methane Quicklook product for its customers.
The contract with the German government includes access to data from Planet’s Dove and SkySat constellations, as well as AI-enabled solutions.
Planet's decision to build a manufacturing facility in Germany corresponds with growing demand in Europe.
Berlin-Partner estimated Planet's expected investment in the new facility at approximately €45 million.
The new facility in Berlin is expected to add up to 70 new employees to Planet's German subsidiary.
Planet Labs GmbH will begin production of next-generation, high-resolution Pelican satellites in Germany.
Planet Labs will begin production of its next-generation high-resolution Pelican satellites in Berlin, Germany.