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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SES Government Solutions and Planet Labs will develop a real-time, always-on, low-latency connectivity solution enabled by SES’s GEO and MEO constellations, including O3b mPOWER, to support NASA missions.
The companies will explore using Planet’s geospatial data and Moody’s data to provide real-time, on-the-ground insights for ESG and related use cases.
Commercial companies like Blacksky, Planet, and Maxar provided high-resolution imagery and data sets to journalists, activists, and open source intelligence analysts.
Satellogic is a vertically integrated geospatial company developing a scalable, fully automated Earth observation platform designed to remap the planet at high frequency and high resolution.
A consortium led by the State of California, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Planet plans to launch a Carbon Mapper constellation equipped with hyperspectral sensors to detect, quantify, and track sources of methane and carbon dioxide.
Planet expects Pelican to be built at the company’s manufacturing facility in San Francisco.
NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in November 2021 to impact Dimorphos, the minor-planet moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos.
Planet’s CEO Will Marshall expressed excitement about partnering with Moody’s to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy.
Electric propulsion on Pelican satellites will allow Planet to fine-tune orbits to prevent drift, avoid debris, and operate at lower altitudes to improve image resolution.
Planet has entered into an agreement with Moody’s to explore and address the growing demand for assessing and monitoring solutions on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risks.
Planet plans for RF inter-satellite links to be replaceable with optical inter-satellite links once the industry agrees on standards and constellations begin providing services.
This relationship with Moody’s represents a landmark deal for Planet, utilizing satellite data for ESG measurement.
Planet and Moody’s will leverage high-cadence geospatial data and market-leading entity data to refine Moody’s existing offerings in ESG, Know-Your-Customer (KYC), supply chain, and commercial real estate.
Planet Labs provides daily PlanetScope satellite imagery that is used by SynMax to provide data-informed insights on the energy industry in the United States.
Bill Perkins, founder of SynMax and owner of energy hedge fund Skylar Capital, met Planet CEO and co-founder Will Marshall at Marshall’s 2014 TED talk and subsequently contacted Planet to explore using Planet’s daily data to monitor frac crew activity.
Maxar and Planet conduct the geospatial intelligence mission, delivering high-resolution satellite imagery for troop movement documentation.
Planet captures images of the entire planet every day, achieving a revisit rate never before attained.
Since its founding, Planet has launched over 500 satellites and currently operates roughly 200 in orbit.
Planet Labs was initially founded as Cosmogia by former NASA scientists.
Dr. Christopher R. Boshuizen, Dr. William S. Marshall, and Robbie Schingler co-founded Planet Labs PBC in 2010.