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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D-Orbit completed a commercial last-mile delivery service on 2020-10-28 when its In-Orbit Now (ION) vehicle dropped off 12 Planet satellites over two months.
Satellogic projects it can provide imagery at a cost per square kilometer roughly 100 times cheaper than competitors such as Airbus, BlackSky, Maxar, and Planet.
Ryan Johnson was the CEO of RapidEye, the Berlin-based agriculture satellite constellation that he sold to Planet in 2015.
Andy Dearing was the former CEO of Boundless Spatial, a geospatial software company acquired by Planet.
Spire has added 10 years of historical weather data from across the planet.
Mike Safyan is the Vice President of Launch at Planet.
Astra announced a contract with Planet to perform multiple launches of Planet’s imaging satellites in 2022.
Woolpert can offer solutions built on Planet data to supplement Woolpert’s existing products and services.
Planet and Woolpert are working together to provide imagery and data to select areas of Africa as part of a campaign to deliver technology and engineering capabilities to underserved areas.
Axelspace Corporation has been developing a next-generation Earth observation platform named AxelGlobe designed to obtain images of the entire planet with high frequency.
Planet retired the RapidEye constellation in 2020.
Prior to joining Ouster, Nathan Dickerman served as the Chief Commercial Officer at Planet Labs.
Nathan Dickerman built the go-to-market organization at Planet Labs and scaled the company to win hundreds of new customers.
DOST-ASTI partnered with Geospectrum, a Planet partner, to obtain access to Planet satellite data.
Satellite Vu plans to launch a satellite constellation capable of imaging the thermal footprint of any building on the planet every 1-2 hours.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on 2021-04-19.
In 2019 the National Reconnaissance Office awarded study contracts to Maxar, Planet, and BlackSky under which those companies provided imagery for government assessment of quality and performance.
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter performed the first powered aircraft flight on another planet on 2021-04-19.
The NRO launched an industry competition in 2019 to select new suppliers of electro-optical imagery and awarded study contracts to Maxar, Planet, and BlackSky.
Phase 1 of Carbon Mapper includes development of the first two satellites by Planet and NASA JPL and is planned to launch in 2023.