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 six SkySat satellites that Planet will launch on Starlink missions will go into mid-inclination orbits to offer targeted coverage and rapid revisit times.
Mark Mozena is the senior director of government affairs at Planet.
In 2018 NASA planned to purchase Earth observation data from Maxar Technologies, Planet and Spire as part of a pilot program to evaluate commercial data utility.
In April 2019 NASA purchased Planet imagery for a climate research pilot program under a $6,700,000 contract.
NASA’s contract with Planet includes options to continue purchasing imagery through September 2023.
NASA employees, contractors and NASA-funded research teams will have access to Planet Earth observation imagery under a $7,000,000 contract option.
Planet receives grants from Bloomberg Philanthropies to support its Satellites for Climate Action work.
CREA obtains Planet imagery through Satellites for Climate Action, a partnership announced at the 2019 Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York.
The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office awarded contracts to multiple commercial imagery providers in 2019 and considered larger procurement contracts to commercial players like Planet and BlackSky in 2020.
Planet purchased Terra Bella from Google in 2017.
Planet Federal is a subsidiary of Planet, an Earth observation company that operates about 150 imaging satellites.
NASA announced plans in 2018 to purchase Earth science data from Maxar, Planet, and Spire.
Planet, based in San Francisco, operates 140 Earth observation satellites including about 120 Dove cubesats, five RapidEye satellites, and 15 SkySats.
The 12 Planet SuperDove satellites were inserted into a Sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 510 km altitude.
Planet operates a constellation of 120 Dove satellites that image the Earth’s landmass daily at 3- to 5-meter resolution.
Planet operates SkySat and RapidEye satellites that provide higher-resolution, point-and-shoot imagery in addition to the daily-imaging Dove satellites.
Planet plans to expand the Dove constellation with 12 Dove satellites launching on 2019-11-24 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, on India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Planet is updating its Dove satellites to gather imagery in eight spectral bands.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has been purchasing Planet imagery since 2016.
Planet is preparing to offer 50-centimeter-resolution imagery from its SkySat constellation.