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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NASA extended a Blanket Purchase Agreement with Planet under the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program with multiple orders totaling $18,500,000 in funding through 2024.
Iceye’s and Planet’s updated FCC licenses include provisions requiring the companies to coordinate with the National Science Foundation to achieve a mutually acceptable agreement to mitigate the impact of their satellites on optical ground-based astronomy.
Earth-i has been awarded a multi-year contract to deliver environmental monitoring through Planet Labs’ fleet of earth imaging satellites to the Rural Payments Agency.
Planet Labs’ Pelican program has a first Tech Demo, TD1, that is fully built and expected to be ready for launch later 2023.
Planet Labs is building and launching two hyperspectral satellites named Tanager 1 and Tanager 2.
Planet Labs is engaging closely with users in its Early Access Program to understand how hyperspectral data will deliver value to organizations.
An imaging spectrometer developed by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been handed off to Planet Labs for integration into the Tanager 1 hyperspectral satellite.
Garmin's existing emergency service uses Iridium’s satellites, which cover the entire planet.
SES is partnering with Planet Labs on a mission for NASA to provide data relay links in both the Ka-band and the C-band.
Parker Solar Probe flew past Venus on 2023-08-21 to use the planet’s gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the Sun starting next month.
The NRO is seeking imaging capabilities beyond those covered by the Electro-Optical Commercial Layer contracts awarded last year to Maxar Technologies, BlackSky, and Planet Labs.
NASA selected Rocket Lab to launch a pair of cubesats in 2024 to monitor energy entering and exiting the polar regions of the planet.
Planet’s larger 100- to 200-kilogram bus enables more modular, higher-performance satellite designs by providing additional internal volume compared with cubesats.
Planet’s in-house manufacturing extends from Dove cubesats to Pelican and Tanager satellites, which use a common 100- to 200-kilogram bus.
Planet Labs PBC produced imagery comparing Lahaina in September 2022 and August 2023 after the wildfire.
Three years after its founding, Planet launched its first fleet of Dove satellites as part of the Flock 1 constellation.
Planet supports leveraging the UK Geospatial Strategy 2030 to unlock the power of satellite data to support businesses and the economy.
Impulse Space’s 2026 Mars mission with Relativity Space is planned to be the first commercial mission to the red planet.
OneWeb operates 600 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites providing broadband connectivity around the planet.
Project Kuiper calls for at least 3,236 low Earth orbit satellites to provide broadband coverage to the entire planet.