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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Terrestrial networks provide connectivity covering 15% of the planet, leaving 85% of the planet to be covered via Satellite IoT in ArrowSpot and Astrocast’s joint solution.
The United Nations identifies illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing as the planet’s sixth largest crime and estimates that 20% of the over 90 million tonnes of fish caught globally each year are captured illegally at an estimated cost of $23,500,000,000 annually.
The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will begin to develop a number of initiatives to help protect the planet’s orbital environment.
Planet’s $146,000,000 initial NRO commitment nearly doubled Planet’s backlog, which stood at $152,000,000 on 2023-04-30.
Planet signed an agreement in April 2023 with Moody’s to help the financial services firm identify ways to assess and monitor Environmental, Social, and Governance risks.
Planet received a $146,000,000 initial commitment from the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imagery over five years for SkySat constellation tasking, PlanetScope daily imagery, and access to Planet’s imagery archive.
Planet announced expansion of its contract with Bayer on 2022-06-14 to supply Planet Fusion data and high-resolution SkySat data for historical and in-season agricultural performance analysis.
Planet disclosed the $146,000,000 NRO contract value during its 2022-06-14 earnings call.
Planet reported $40,100,000 in first quarter 2023 revenues, a 26 percent increase compared with the first quarter of Planet’s fiscal 2022 first quarter.
Planet captured imagery on 2022-05-29 showing the Russian bulk carrier Matros Pozynich delivering Ukrainian grain to Lattakia, Syria.
Planet captured imagery on 2022-05-12 and 2022-05-31 showing farmers tilling fields near Slovyansk, Ukraine.
The NRO awarded 10-year EOCL contracts to BlackSky, Maxar Technologies, and Planet.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) contracts to BlackSky, Maxar Technologies, and Planet on 2022-05-25.
BlackSky and Planet are planning fleets of satellites with 30- to 50-centimeter resolution that will place them in more direct competition with Maxar in the coming years.
The National Reconnaissance Office’s market research for EOCL included study contracts awarded in 2019 to BlackSky, Maxar, and Planet.
Planet’s EOCL contract provides the National Reconnaissance Office access to Planet’s high- and medium-resolution satellite imagery and to Planet’s archive of over 2,000 images of every point on Earth dating back to 2009.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded BlackSky, Maxar Technologies, and Planet Labs 10-year contracts on 2022-05-25 to provide satellite imagery for U.S. intelligence, defense, and federal civil agencies.
Telesat Government Solutions intends to partner with Planet Labs PBC to develop a space-based RF terminal hosted on two Earth observation spacecraft.
Planet operates more than 200 satellites in polar orbit that acquire electro-optical imagery.
Telesat Government Solutions intends to partner with Planet Labs PBC to develop a space-based RF terminal hosted on two Earth observation spacecraft.