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 launched 19 Doves and two SkySats on two recent flights: a SpaceX rideshare mission on 2018-12-03 and India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle flight on 2018-11-29.
Planet’s U.S. government group will merge with Boundless Spatial to create a subsidiary named Planet Federal focused on selling commercial products to meet U.S. government requirements.
Planet and Boundless Spatial signed a definitive acquisition agreement on 2018-12-15.
The terms of the Planet–Boundless Spatial deal announced 2018-12-18 were not disclosed.
Planet acquired BlackBridge and its RapidEye Earth observation satellite constellation in 2015.
Planet acquired Terra Bella and its SkySat constellation from Google in 2017.
NASA started a smallsat constellation data purchase pilot program and announced awards in August 2018 to DigitalGlobe, Planet, and Spire to purchase data from their constellations.
Planet moved into new San Francisco headquarters on 2018-11-26, consolidating management, engineering, sales, and testing operations under one roof for the first time.
Planet completed 180 agreements in the third quarter of 2018, including new deals and expansions of previous contracts.
Planet won additional contracts to supply data to the Copernicus Emergency Management, Land Monitoring, and Security programs.
NASA’s Earth Science Division issued agreements to purchase data from Planet, DigitalGlobe, and Spire under contracts with a maximum combined value of $7,000,000 over five years.
Within 24 hours of the Camp Fire image, Planet employees were in the California Office of Emergency Services mission control center providing access to Planet imagery.
Since its founding in 2010, investors have invested $300,000,000 into Planet.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded Planet a $5,900,000 six-month contract with an option for another six months.
Sodern built the three seismic sensors onboard NASA’s InSight lander that reached the red planet 2018-11-26.
Planet’s 2017 sales were twice those of 2016, according to the company’s chief of staff Trevor Hammond.
Planet joined an Airbus-led consortium supplying high-resolution imagery through the European Commission’s Copernicus Earth observation program.
Planet launched two SkySat satellites and three Dove cubesats on the 2018-12-03 rideshare mission.
India’s ISRO launched 104 satellites on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in February 2017, including 88 for U.S. company Planet.
HawkEye 360 is developing foundational products to build global awareness of spectrum deployment and to create an RF data layer for the planet.