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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NASA JPL will provide technical assistance to Planet’s development of the hyperspectral payload for additional Carbon Mapper satellites.
Phase 1 of Carbon Mapper includes development of the first two satellites by Planet and NASA JPL and is planned to launch in 2023.
Planet will design and build the Carbon Mapper satellites and operate the fleet with its existing mission system architecture.
Planet will design and build the Carbon Mapper satellites, integrate NASA JPL’s hyperspectral imaging sensor, and operate the fleet with its existing mission system architecture.
Carbon Mapper pairs hyperspectral sensors developed at JPL with satellites approximately the size of Planet SkySats.
A consortium led by the State of California, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Planet is developing the Carbon Mapper hyperspectral satellite constellation.
Blackbridge Ltd. acquired RapidEye prior to Planet acquiring the RapidEye constellation in 2015.
Planet acquired the RapidEye constellation in 2015.
MAVEN is a 2013 Mars orbiter that is still studying the planet’s atmosphere and will serve as a communications relay for Perseverance.
Tactile Mobility partnered with the City of Detroit and a major Detroit-based automaker, with support from Planet-M, to conduct a proof of concept demonstrating tactile technology for real-time slipperiness detection.
Lynk will provide initial messaging services that can deliver connectivity every 5 to 20 minutes to customers, depending on their location on the planet.
Future Ventures has invested in two space companies: SpaceX and Planet.
Steve Jurvetson served on the board of SpaceX and Planet Labs for many years.
Planet Labs manages 3 million images every day, more than all other commercial and public sources combined.
The CubeSat MultiPack development enabled ISISPACE to support Planet by including 36 Planet Type 3.XL+ SuperDove smallsats.
The mission named PULSE will deploy 20 satellites from ION SCV Laurentius, including eight SuperDove satellites from Planet Labs.
Planet launched 48 Dove cubesats on Transporter-1, with 36 contracted directly with SpaceX and 12 contracted through other companies.
Users with a Planet Basemaps subscription can view Surface Reflectance Basemaps in false color using one of six visualization indices, including color infrared, in Planet’s ArcGIS Add-In and QGIS Plugin V2.0.
Satellogic expects to complete the initial buildout of its Earth Observation Constellation by the end of 2022, after which the company will have the capacity to deliver weekly high-resolution coverage of the entire landmass of the planet.
Chris Tucker, Chairman of the American Geographical Society and author of A Planet of 3 Billion, is the first featured speaker for the GeoInnovation National Speaker Series.