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 has a multi-year, multi-launch agreement with SpaceX that designates SpaceX as Planet’s go-to launch provider through the end of 2025.
The first planned launch under Planet’s SpaceX agreement is Flock 4x, consisting of 44 SuperDoves on the Falcon 9 Transporter-3 sun-synchronous rideshare mission scheduled for December 2021.
Planet has a multi-year, multi-launch agreement with SpaceX designating SpaceX as Planet’s go-to launch provider through the end of 2025.
Planet launched Flock 4s, 48 SuperDoves, on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 sun-synchronous orbit rideshare mission.
The first planned launch under Planet’s agreement with SpaceX is Flock 4x, 44 SuperDoves on the Falcon 9 Transporter-3 sun-synchronous orbit rideshare mission scheduled for December 2021.
Planet launched SkySats 16–18 and SkySats 19–21 aboard SpaceX Starlink missions.
Planet lost eight satellites in the 2015 breakup of a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Planet launched 48 SuperDoves on the SpaceX Transporter-1 mission in January, expanding its Earth-observation fleet to more than 200 satellites.
Planet lost 26 satellites in the 2014 failure of an Orbital Sciences Antares rocket.
Planet lost five satellites in July 2020 when a Rocket Lab Electron failed to reach orbit.
Planet designated SpaceX as its go-to launch provider through the end of 2025 under a multiyear agreement announced on 2021-08-05.
Experts at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies used Planet's satellite imagery to discover and monitor the construction of hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missile silos across 700 square miles of remote desert around Yumen, China.
Nuclear experts at the Federation of American Scientists identified a second missile silo field in Eastern Xinjiang province using Planet's imagery solutions.
Planet has entered into a definitive merger agreement with dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV to become a publicly-traded company.
Planet provides global, daily satellite imagery that has been used to report on significant developments in China's missile and nuclear weapon programs.
Planet's Dove constellation offers a unique, always-on design that supports continuous satellite imagery.
Will Marshall is the co-founder and CEO of Planet, emphasizing the company's mission to enable greater global transparency.
Together, the Middlebury Institute and the Federation of American Scientists identified roughly 230 new missile silos in China using Planet's data.
In the first half of 2021, researchers using Planet imagery via NASA CSDA monitored melting summer ice in Greenland.
The expanded Planet contract under NASA CSDA makes roughly 280,000 users eligible to access PlanetScope imagery for scientific research.