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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Governments in some parts of Europe turned to Planet's services to analyze the complex layouts of small farms.
The planned radar commercial layer would be similar to the electro-optical commercial layer contract awarded in 2022 to Maxar, Planet, and BlackSky but likely at a smaller scale.
Maxar, Planet, and BlackSky were awarded the electro-optical commercial layer contract in 2022.
NRO Director Chris Scolese awarded contracts worth $4,000,000,000 over 10 years to BlackSky, Maxar Technologies, and Planet in 2022 under the Electro-Optical Commercial Layer program.
The G-EGD system was introduced in 2011 initially to access imagery from Maxar Technologies and has since expanded to include Maxar, Planet, Iceye, BlackSky, Capella Space, and others.
Ingenuity performed powered, controlled flight on Mars, making it the first aircraft to do so on another planet.
Planet launched the Planet Insights Platform as an all-in-one place for creating Earth insights.
Planet Insights Platform aims to reduce upfront development and maintenance costs while improving customers’ capacity to analyze and orchestrate large volumes of Earth data.
Planet Labs PBC launched the Planet Insights Platform as a unified venue for creating Earth insights.
The Planet Insights Platform aims to reduce upfront development and maintenance costs for customers while improving capacity to analyze and orchestrate large volumes of Earth data.
Planet acquired Slovenian startup Sinergise Labs, the provider of Sentinel Hub, in 2023.
The Planet Insights Platform merges Earth-observation datasets with Sentinel Hub cloud-based analytics and tools.
Through the Planet Insights Platform, government and commercial customers will gain access to proprietary artificial intelligence that creates harmonized, cloud-masked, and spatially consistent daily stacks of images enabling time-series analysis and machine learning applications.
Planet unveiled the Planet Insights Platform on 2024-04-09 in Colorado Springs.
Planet Labs signed a multi-year data-license agreement with Carbon Mapper to provide hyperspectral core imagery to Carbon Mapper and its partners until 2030.
Carbon Mapper has been a key partner to Planet Labs in developing the Tanager hyperspectral constellation.
Planet has a $20,000,000 agreement to provide hyperspectral data for Carbon Mapper’s greenhouse gas monitoring campaign from 2026 to 2030.
Planet’s first hyperspectral Tanager satellite, designed to gather visible through shortwave infrared imagery, is scheduled to launch in 2024.
NASA intends to launch three sounding rockets during the total solar eclipse on 2024-04-08 to study how Earth’s upper atmosphere is affected when sunlight momentarily dims over a portion of the planet.
Planet Labs owns and operates the largest fleet of Earth observation imagery satellites, capturing a scan of the Earth on a near-daily basis.