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Planet aims to constantly improve its constellation to enhance spectral and temporal resolution.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded on 2019-10-15 a commercial imagery contract of undisclosed value to Planet Labs Federal.
Planet is updating its fleet of Dove satellites to an eight-band system from a current four-band system.
Planet will move PlanetScope from four to five and then to eight bands over the coming months.
In June 2019 the National Reconnaissance Office awarded study contracts to BlackSky, Maxar Technologies, and Planet to evaluate how commercial imagery providers could satisfy NRO needs relative to EnhancedView.
Planet considers the new imaging product as designed with artificial intelligence in mind.
Planet is updating its Dove satellites to gather imagery in eight spectral bands.
If the testing goes well, Planet will bring down all 15 SkySat satellites to offer 50-centimeter imagery.
One Planet satellite is already moving to a lower orbit for testing.
The National Reconnaissance Office is committed to ensuring the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and its customers continue to have access to Planet imagery for creating value-added geospatial products for partners and policy makers.
Planet will begin to provide access to data from the new SuperDove satellites.
Maxar won study contracts with Planet and BlackSky from the National Reconnaissance Office in June to assess commercial provider capabilities.
Sky Perfect JSAT invested undisclosed amounts in Planet in December and in geospatial analytics firm Orbital Insight in January.
Planet was established in 2010 and operates five RapidEye satellites, 122 Dove cubesats, and 15 SkySat satellites.
Google acquired Skybox Imaging in 2014 for an estimated $500,000,000 and renamed it Terra Bella.
Planet opened a manufacturing facility in San Francisco in September that can produce up to 40 satellites per week.
The German Space Agency’s Earth Observation Center supplies imagery from Planet’s RapidEye constellation to the International Charter.
Planet supplied imagery to California’s Office of Emergency Services within days of the Camp Fire in Northern California in 2018, which led to a commercial contract.
Some commercial companies can build satellites for about $1,500,000 that can perform significant surveillance of the planet.
Planet Labs announced plans to create a small satellite constellation in 2013.