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 considers the new imaging product as designed with artificial intelligence in mind.
Planet aims to constantly improve its constellation to enhance spectral and temporal resolution.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded on 2019-10-15 a commercial imagery contract of undisclosed value to Planet Labs Federal.
Planet's constellation of 15 SkySats currently produces 72-centimeter-per-pixel imagery.
One Planet satellite is already moving to a lower orbit for testing.
Planet is updating its fleet of Dove satellites to an eight-band system from a current four-band system.
Planet will begin to provide access to data from the new SuperDove satellites.
In June 2019 the National Reconnaissance Office awarded study contracts to BlackSky, Maxar Technologies, and Planet to evaluate how commercial imagery providers could satisfy NRO needs relative to EnhancedView.
Planet intends to move the SkySats to a lower altitude and improve image processing to provide higher resolution imagery.
In April the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency exercised a $5,900,000 option to buy current and archival Planet imagery for six months.
If the testing goes well, Planet will bring down all 15 SkySat satellites to offer 50-centimeter imagery.
Planet will move PlanetScope from four to five and then to eight bands over the coming months.
George Whitesides, chief executive of Virgin Galactic, supports partnering with Boeing to develop systems intended to change how people move around the planet and connect with one another.
Maxar won study contracts with Planet and BlackSky from the National Reconnaissance Office in June to assess commercial provider capabilities.
Sky Perfect JSAT invested undisclosed amounts in Planet in December and in geospatial analytics firm Orbital Insight in January.
Planet was established in 2010 and operates five RapidEye satellites, 122 Dove cubesats, and 15 SkySat satellites.
Google acquired Skybox Imaging in 2014 for an estimated $500,000,000 and renamed it Terra Bella.
Planet opened a manufacturing facility in San Francisco in September that can produce up to 40 satellites per week.
The German Space Agency’s Earth Observation Center supplies imagery from Planet’s RapidEye constellation to the International Charter.
Planet supplied imagery to California’s Office of Emergency Services within days of the Camp Fire in Northern California in 2018, which led to a commercial contract.