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 16 Dove cubesats on the PSLV mission under the name Flock-3R.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has been using commercial imagery from smallsat provider Planet.
BepiColombo builds on research from NASA’s Messenger, which orbited Mercury from 2011 to 2015 before crashing into the planet’s surface.
An Airbus-led consortium including Planet won a contract in July to provide high-resolution imagery of Europe for the European Commission and the European Space Agency’s Copernicus program.
Beau Jarvis was previously the international sales vice president for Earth observation constellation operator Planet.
Planet operates about 150 Dove cubesats and 13 SkySats.
Dawn launched in September 2007 to orbit the large asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt.
Planet purchased insurance covering transport to the launch site and other pre-launch activities and has purchased in-orbit liability insurance since it began operations in LEO.
Planet completing Mission 1 was named Breakthrough of the Year for 2017.
NASA will buy Earth science data from DigitalGlobe, Planet, and Spire, with contracts for those data purchases still being negotiated.
Planet acquired Google’s Terra Bella constellation in 2017.
Planet acquired BlackBridge’s RapidEye fleet in 2015.
Planet’s Dove constellation provides daily global coverage at approximately 3- to 5-meter resolution.
Planet operates 13 SkySats that provide 90-centimeter resolution.
Planet and Airbus Defence and Space’s geospatial division have agreed to co-develop imagery products that leverage both companies’ satellites.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Planet last month to explore improving the speed of extracting information and analytics from Planet imagery.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency purchased a $14,000,000 subscription for Planet’s Dove cubesat imagery in July 2017 following an introductory contract signed in 2016.
Planet will launch two more SkySat satellites later 2018.
Planet relies on 180 Earth observation satellites and 30 ground stations to gather imagery and provide data and services to customers.