Since 2013, the Company has successfully deployed 363 satellites and currently has approximately 150 satellites in orbit, that collect over 250M sqkm of imagery daily. Satellite imaging start-up Planet Labs is growing by leaps and bounds as it covers the Earth in tiny spy satellites. Elsewhere on the Web Planet Labs – planet.com – is the largest commercial satellite network delivering the only daily global dataset Key Links planet.com @planetlabs Embedded Tweets Planet Labs is a small, private company that manufactures satellites the size of a loaf of bread. Tiny Company That Bought Google's Satellites Becomes a Rising Star Satellite imaging start-up Planet Labs is growing by leaps and bounds as it covers the Earth in tiny spy satellites.
Feel free to mentally add seven more to that number once the Terra Bella acquisition is finalized, if you like. Day's Range - Trade Time 01:42AM 52-week Range 1,005.00 - 1,862.00 Trade Date 07/28/2020 52-week Perf. Planet Labs Nabs $95 Million And A New COO To Cover The Earth With Flocks Of Tiny Satellites. DigitalGlobe may dominate the market for highly detailed Earth imaging. To that end, the Company launches new satellites into orbit every three to four months. Alone among satellite operators, Planet can now take a snapshot of every square foot of Earth's solid surface once per day, every day of the year.With every passing day, Planet Labs is getting bigger, treading more and more on DigitalGlobe's astro-turf, and making its rival's products nonunique. 2017. category Robbie Schingler, John Celli, Planet Labs/, and 33 more.
It has a spatial resolution of 0.9 metres in its 400–900 nm panchromatic band, making it the smallest satellite to be put in orbit capable of such high resolution imagery. At 27,000+ square-feet, the complex is six times the size of the previous lab and brings all aspects of spacecraft design and production under one roof.Planet aquires Boundless SpatialPlanet acquires Boundless Spatial, Inc., a St. Louis-based geospatial software solutions company.Planet Federal, a wholly owned subsidiary of Planet Labs, Inc., is established to expand commercial business with the U.S. government.Planet hosts first-ever user conference, Planet Explore 19, in San Francisco, convening nearly 500 customers, partners, researchers, and developers.After 11 years of service, the RapidEye constellation is retired and customers are transitioned to Next-Generation PlanetScope.Planet Unveils Hi-Res OfferingsTo demonstrate our commitment to rapidly deliver more value to customers every year, Planet unveiled three new product releases - 50cm SkySat imagery, a new Tasking Dashboard and enhanced rapid revisit capabilities.Three Planet SkySats launched on SpaceXâs Falcon 9, joining the 15 others already in orbit and expanding our capacity to provide world class, high resolution images to a variety of organizations.High frequency, global coverageRapid revisit, global intelligenceCurrent, complete, and analysis-ready mosaicsTransforming imagery to insightsLiving dataset of global change Google becomes an equity stakeholder in Planet and signs a multi-year deal to buy imagery data from Planet.Planet launches an additional 48 Dove satellites on a Soyuz rocket and reaches capacity to image Earthâs entire landmass every day.Planet launches six SkySats (8-13) and four Doves, Flock 3m, into SSO orbit aboard an Orbital-ATK Minotaur-C rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.Onstage at TED, Will Marshall presents Planetâs vision of a Queryable Earth â to index physical change on Earth and make it searchable for all.Planet unveils the beta release of Planet Analytics, a product suite that leverages machine learning to transform global, daily satellite imagery into information feeds that detect and classify objects, identify geographic features, and monitor change over time.New Satellite Manufacturing Facility OpenedPlanet opens a new, state-of-the-art satellite manufacturing facility capable of producing 40 satellites a week.