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 and Sinergise began working together in 2016 when Sinergise started reselling Planet satellite data.
Planet and Sinergise extended their partnership in 2021 to supply Earth-observation data to Slovenia’s Agency for Agricultural Markets and Rural Development.
Planet established a European presence in 2015 with the acquisition of Berlin-based BlackBridge and its RapidEye Earth-observation constellation.
Planet acquired VanderSat in 2021, a Dutch company that gathers data on soil moisture, land surface temperature, and other Earth-surface conditions.
Planet acquired Boundless Spatial in 2019 and Terra Bella in 2017.
Planet plans to acquire Sinergise Labs, a Slovenian startup that makes Earth-observation data accessible through cloud-based APIs, with the plan announced on 2023-03-29.
Planet has announced plans for a hyperspectral constellation named Tanager in partnership with the nonprofit Carbon Mapper Coalition.
In 2020 the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative awarded KSAT, Planet, and Airbus a multi-year contract to provide free access to high-resolution satellite images of the tropics to monitor tropical deforestation.
The expanded Strategic Partnership between Planet and ASU includes a Research & Innovation tenet under which ASU committed to fund expanded research using Planet data and to seed a new ecopreneur program.
The expanded Strategic Partnership between Planet and ASU includes a Talent and Certifications tenet to establish an intern program that will bring ASU students into Planet and bring Planet onto ASU’s campus for mentoring across several ASU schools.
Planet and Arizona State University have collaborated since 2016 on programs including the Planet Incubator Program within ASU’s Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science.
Space firms that went public through SPAC deals include Astra, Virgin Orbit, Rocket Lab, BlackSky, Spire, AST SpaceMobile, Satellogic, Planet, Terran Orbital, Virgin Galactic, Redwire, and Momentus.
Planet imagery captured after the 2017 Bangladesh floods helped direct disaster relief resources to the most impacted areas.
Planet plans to use SES’s Ka-band O3b mPOWER MEO high-throughput links to reduce imagery data delivery timelines from hours to minutes.
SES is developing a satellite data relay service with NASA and Planet Labs PBC using a multi-orbit fleet of Geostationary (GEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites to support NASA missions in near-Earth orbits.
Geostationary (GEO) satellites cover fixed areas of the planet and do not provide 100% global coverage.
Planet has been providing commercial SmallSat data to NASA scientists and federally funded researchers under NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program since 2018.
Planet and NASA Harvest supported the Government of Togo during the COVID-19 pandemic by creating a cropland map of the entire country delivered within 10 days of receiving the request.
The Planet SuperDoves launched on ISILAUNCH38 were designed and built by Planet to provide Earth observation data.
Each Planet SuperDove is equipped with eight spectral bands and improved on-orbit capacity to deliver sharp, analysis-ready data quickly.