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 plans to offer a product called Fusion Monitoring in early 2021 that merges various datasets to provide a continuous stream of imagery without gaps and clouds.
Planet’s SkySats provide roughly 50-centimeter resolution and Maxar provides roughly 30-centimeter or better imaging resolution.
Planet had 26 SuperDove cubesats on Vega, including 14 that used QuadPack deployers from Innovative Solutions in Space arranged by Spaceflight and 12 aboard D-Orbit’s inaugural ION Satellite Carrier.
Planet is supplying monthly imagery over a period of two years for more than 100 locations covering 40,000 square kilometers on six continents for the SpaceNet 7 challenge.
The Falcon 9 carried 58 small broadband satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink constellation and three SkySat optical imaging satellites for Planet on the 2020-08-18 mission.
Planet’s Dove cubesats provide imagery at 3-5 m resolution.
The 2020-08-18 launch completed Planet’s constellation of 21 SkySats.
Rocket Lab’s next Electron launch scheduled for 2020-07-05 was planned to carry commercial satellites for Canon, Planet, and In-Space Missions.
SpaceX unveiled plans in 2017 to use its Starship system to transport people across the planet.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded study contracts in 2019 to BlackSky Global, HyspecIQ, Maxar Technologies, and Planet to compare each company’s current and planned capabilities with imagery requirements established by NGA.
Planet acquired the SkySat constellation from Google in 2017.
With 21 SkySats in sun-synchronous and mid-inclination orbits, Planet expects to offer customers an average of seven daily opportunities to view locations on the ground.
With 21 SkySats in sun-synchronous and mid-inclination orbits, Planet expects as many as 12 daily opportunities to obtain imagery of sites near 53 degrees latitude.
Planet lowered the altitude of 15 SkySats in orbit over the six months prior to 2020-06-09 to improve resolution.
Planet and SpaceX signed the launch contract for the June SkySat launch about six months before the launch.
Planet unveiled a cloud-based dashboard and API on 2020-06-09 to allow customers to task the SkySat constellation.
Planet purchased rides for six additional SkySats on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets to expand the SkySat constellation and improve revisit rates.
Planet readied the satellites, built a new rocket interface, designed a new commissioning schedule for low orbit insertion, and delivered the SkySats for launch within six months of signing the contract with SpaceX.
After Falcon 9 deploys the SkySats and the Starlink satellites, Planet’s spacecraft will use their on-board propulsion to boost themselves to an operational orbit of about 400 km above Earth.
Planet will launch six more SkySat satellites 2020 as secondary payloads on two SpaceX Starlink launches.