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 Labs announced plans to create a small satellite constellation in 2013.
The NRO awarded one-year study contracts in 2019 to Maxar, Planet, and BlackSky to evaluate the companies’ products and the projected size and capacity of their satellite constellations.
The National Reconnaissance Office issued a study contract to Planet Federal, a Planet subsidiary established in 2018 to work closely with U.S. government agencies.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded commercial imagery study contracts to BlackSky Global, Maxar Technologies, and Planet.
Based on RFI responses, the National Reconnaissance Office awarded study contracts of undisclosed value to BlackSky, Maxar, and Planet.
Capella Space is building a constellation of 36 radar satellites to scan any spot on the planet once every hour and identify objects like small vehicles in any weather conditions.
In October 2017, the Minotaur-C successfully launched a set of commercial imaging satellites for Planet.
NASA awarded Planet a $6,700,000 contract to provide Earth imagery for climate research.
Under the NASA award, Planet data will be provided to 35 researchers to evaluate its utility alongside data from government Earth observation sensors.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency exercised a $5,900,000 contract option to acquire current and archival Earth imagery from Planet’s small satellite constellation through mid-September.
Planet launched 20 Dove satellites on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on 2019-03-31 following the Mission Shakti test.
Planet launched 88 CubeSats on a PSLV flight in February 2017.
Planet launched 16 CubeSats on a PSLV flight in November 2018.
NASA started a commercial data buy program with contracts announced in August to purchase Earth science data from DigitalGlobe, Planet, and Spire.
DigitalGlobe and Planet are providing imagery to NASA under the agency’s commercial data buy program, and Spire is providing GPS radio occultation data.
Joe Rothenberg worked as director of engineering and operations for Terra Bella, the name given to Skybox Imaging after its acquisition by Google in 2014.
California Governor Jerry Brown partnered with Planet in September to work on a pollution-monitoring satellite.
California Governor Jerry Brown announced an initiative in September to develop a greenhouse gas satellite in cooperation with Planet.
The Flock 3k payload consists of twelve 3U Dove CubeSats designed and built by Planet Labs Inc. of San Francisco, USA.
Planet plans to acquire Boundless Spatial Inc.