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At the time of this reporting, Planet Labs was the only Earth-observation provider to publicly announce limitations on commercial access over the region.
Planet Labs’ blackout severely limits public access to up-to-date imagery over the affected region.
Planet Labs consulted experts inside and outside of government before extending the commercial access restrictions, and the decision was not the result of a request from any government entity.
Planet Labs is attempting to deny Iran’s ability to use timely commercial Earth-observation data to target allied bases.
Planet Labs expanded the blackout area to include all of Iran and nearby allied bases, in addition to the Gulf States and existing conflict zones.
Planet Labs extended restrictions for commercial access to its Earth-observation data covering the Middle East from 96 hours to two weeks.
Planet Labs implemented the blackout to proactively limit the risk of misuse of its data in the conflict and to prevent imagery from being tactically leveraged to target allied and NATO-partner personnel and civilians.
The blackout has forced at least some journalists who use Planet imagery to consider working with a broader range of Earth-observation providers.
Faint, structured debris discs can serve as indirect signposts of hidden planetary architectures that traditional planet-hunting methods struggle to probe.
The high-resolution imagery circulated by MizarVision was sourced from Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence) at approximately 0.3-meter resolution and from Planet Labs for wide-swath maritime imagery.
Binary star systems have an instability zone around them in which no planet can survive due to three-body interactions.
The satellites capturing the raw imagery used by MizarVision are American-operated by companies including Vantor and Planet Labs.
Mapping brightness variations in debris discs allows astronomers to infer where gravitational perturbations may be concentrating dust even when the perturbing planet cannot be seen directly with current instruments.
When a circumbinary planet's periastron enters the instability zone, the planet is either ejected to the outer system or driven close enough to be engulfed or tidally disrupted by the stars.
The uneven brightness pattern in HD121617’s disc is interpreted as evidence that an object, possibly an unseen planet, has created a vortex that traps particles and boosts local dust density.
A basal magma ocean (BMO) is a deep layer of partially or fully molten rock at the base of a planet's mantle.
Planet Labs and other commercial Earth observation providers are monitoring the deployment of surviving S-300 and Bavar-373 air defense units in the region.
Planet Labs conducted the visual assessment using a combination of PlanetScope Dove and SkySat constellations.
The Planet Labs imagery shows thick plumes of smoke rising from the Leadership House compound of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following the opening wave of Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28.
Google’s Project Suncatcher plans to fly two prototype satellites equipped with Google-developed TPU AI chips in 2027 in partnership with Planet.