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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The final EOCL request for proposals follows more than two years of market research that included 2019 study contracts awarded to Maxar, BlackSky, and Planet.
Tara O’Shea is Director of Forest Programs at Planet and will present a Monday keynote titled Combining Remote Sensing & Analytics Technologies: Emerging Environmental Applications at Geo Week on 2022-02-07.
Pelican is a next-generation fleet of satellites from Planet for very high resolution imagery that will begin launching in 2022 and be operational in 2023.
Planet designed the Pelican constellation in-house and will build the Pelican satellites at its headquarters in San Francisco.
Planet will merge SAR data from Sentinel-1 into the Fusion product line to create Fusion with SAR.
Pelican satellites are designed, built, and manufactured by Planet and can be upgraded continuously like Planet’s Dove cubesats.
Planet expects going public via the dMY Technology Group IV merger to provide access to funds to build up its team and expand its Earth data platform.
Planet Fusion Monitoring will include Sentinel-1 synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data.
Planet completed its constellation of 21 SkySats in 2020.
Inclusion of Sentinel-1 SAR in Planet Fusion Monitoring provides measurements regardless of cloud cover.
Planet Fusion Monitoring merges imagery from Planet’s 180 Doves with imagery from the European Copernicus Sentinel-2, NASA’s MODIS, and the U.S. Geological Survey-NASA Landsat to create a cloud-free data source.
The National Reconnaissance Office delivers approximately 50,000 commercial images per week acquired through operational contracts with BlackSky, Maxar Technologies, and Planet.
The Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) presented the 2021 Promise Awards to Kelsey Doerksen of Planet, Sydney Hamilton of Boeing, and Raven Moreland of Ball Aerospace.
Kelsey Doerksen identifies, triages, root causes, and resolves satellite anomalies for Planet's Earth Observation satellite constellation.
In 2019 the NRO awarded study contracts to Maxar, Planet, and BlackSky to gain access to the companies’ business plans, finances, and projected constellation capacity.
Planet lowered the altitude of its SkySat Earth-observation satellites from 500 km to 450 km in 2019 to improve imagery resolution.
Pixxel Space aims to build a health monitor for the planet using a constellation of hyperspectral earth-imaging satellites.
Kelsey Doerksen is a Space Systems Engineer in Satellite Operations at Planet and joined the company in February 2020.
Kongsberg Satellite Services, in partnership with Planet and Airbus, has been providing universal access to high-resolution satellite monitoring of the tropics to support efforts to stop deforestation and protect tropical forests.
Lunasonde intends the constellation to eventually map the entire planet down to 10 km on a biweekly basis to provide data to industries such as water resources, mining, and geothermal.