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Planet launched Flock 4s, 48 SuperDoves, on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 sun-synchronous orbit rideshare mission.
The first planned launch under Planet’s agreement with SpaceX is Flock 4x, 44 SuperDoves on the Falcon 9 Transporter-3 sun-synchronous orbit rideshare mission scheduled for December 2021.
Planet launched SkySats 16–18 and SkySats 19–21 aboard SpaceX Starlink missions.
Planet has a multi-year, multi-launch agreement with SpaceX designating SpaceX as Planet’s go-to launch provider through the end of 2025.
Planet launched 48 SuperDoves on the SpaceX Transporter-1 mission in January, expanding its Earth-observation fleet to more than 200 satellites.
Planet lost five satellites in July 2020 when a Rocket Lab Electron failed to reach orbit.
Planet lost 26 satellites in the 2014 failure of an Orbital Sciences Antares rocket.
Planet lost eight satellites in the 2015 breakup of a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Planet designated SpaceX as its go-to launch provider through the end of 2025 under a multiyear agreement announced on 2021-08-05.
The Lunar Industry Vision Council report builds on the Japanese government concept of Society 5.0 and advocates for a Planet 6.0 that envisions a cyclical socio-economic zone including Earth and the moon.
Planet's unclassified data set is highly valued by journalists and analysts for providing insights into global issues.
Planet's Dove constellation offers a unique, always-on design that supports continuous satellite imagery.
Planet has entered into a definitive merger agreement with dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV to become a publicly-traded company.
Experts at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies used Planet's satellite imagery to discover and monitor the construction of hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missile silos across 700 square miles of remote desert around Yumen, China.
AllSource Analysis confirmed construction on a possible new underground tunnel at Lop Nur, a Chinese nuclear test site, using Planet data.
Planet provides global, daily satellite imagery that has been used to report on significant developments in China's missile and nuclear weapon programs.
Nuclear experts at the Federation of American Scientists identified a second missile silo field in Eastern Xinjiang province using Planet's imagery solutions.
Together, the Middlebury Institute and the Federation of American Scientists identified roughly 230 new missile silos in China using Planet's data.
Will Marshall is the co-founder and CEO of Planet, emphasizing the company's mission to enable greater global transparency.
Planet expanded its contract with the NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program to provide access to PlanetScope imagery for scientific research use for all U.S. Federal Civilian researchers and National Science Foundation funded researchers, including their contractors and grantees.