Planet's senior vice president Troy Toman says the company is resetting expectations around AI’s capabilities to solve complex problems

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Planet’s first hyperspectral satellite is ready for launch to help push the Earth observation operator to profitability by early next year.

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SES says it has successfully tested a relay communications link between one of its satellites in medium Earth orbit and a low Earth orbit flight-representative terminal on the ground.

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The Planet Insights Platform is designed to help government and commercial customers rapidly analyze, stream and distribute data.

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Planet announced a $20 million agreement to provide hyperspectral data for Carbon Mapper’s greenhouse gas monitoring campaign from 2026 to 2030.

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Synthetaic uses artificial intelligence to analyze data from space and air sensors.

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It will take a coalition of government agencies working with the private sector to tackle the grand challenge here: comprehensive, sustained, operational monitoring to drive methane and CO2 emission reductions globally.

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Satellites are playing a growing role in identifying methane sources at a time when the international community is focused on curbing emissions.

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SpaceX launched more than 100 satellites in the ninth in a series of dedicated smallsat rideshare missions Nov. 11, the latest flight in a program that has generated both delight and disdain across the commercial space industry.

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The FCC is requiring more operators of satellite constellations to work with astronomers to minimize the effects their satellites will have on ground-based astronomy.

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Planet is working with partners to “get value out of our data,” said Kevin Weil, Planet’s president of product and business.

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As space technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, the role of commercial industry in national defense has become a hot topic, the chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force Gen. B. Chance Saltzman said April 13.

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The way in which commercial imagery is procured by the government does not necessarily support military commanders’ needs for timely intelligence, officials said at the Planet Explore 2023 conference.

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Maxar, Planet and BlackSky are working to expand their offerings beyond optical imagery.

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The National Reconnaissance Office has signed five-year agreements with six commercial providers of hyperspectral satellite imagery

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Days after the Chinese spy balloon was shot down by the U.S. military off the coast of South Carolina, AI startup Synthetaic backtracked the balloon’s trajectory across the continental United States using Earth imaging data from Planet satellites. 

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After a record-setting year of launch activity in 2022, SpaceX kicked off the new year Jan. 3 with a Falcon 9 launch of more than 110 smallsats.

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In spite of progress, various Earth observation systems are not yet able to exchange information easily.

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Planet released additional information about the hyperspectral constellation the Earth-observation company is developing through the Carbon Mapper public-private partnership.

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Earth observation startups and established firms have streamlined satellite tasking.  

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Planet revealed the value of its largest contract to date, a two-year $146 million award from the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imagery over two years, during the company’s June 14 earnings call.

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The contracts recently awarded by the National Reconnaissance Office to BlackSky, Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs will likely reshape the imagery market, says a new report from Quilty Analytics.

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Crises such as the covid pandemic, climate change and the war in Ukraine are fueling demand for geospatial information

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The Pelican constellation, scheduled to begin launching in early 2023 will offer at least 10 daily views of Earth’s land mass and as many as 32 views of midlatitude locations with a resolution of 30 centimeters per pixel.

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