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Farewell from US Ambassador Grenell: New threat against Nord Stream 2

May 27, 2020

"Satellite images from May 15 of the port of Mukran in Sassnitz on Rügen. You can see the ships "Akademik Tscherski" (right ship with yellow crane) and "Fortuna"."

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Myanmar army accused of new atrocities in attack on Rakhine village

May 26, 2020

"Satellite imagery provided by Planet Labs Inc and analysed by Human Rights Watch confirms about 140 buildings were affected by fire in Tin Ma, probably on the dates described."

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Michigan satellite images show flooded homes and a river replacing a lake

May 22, 2020

"Two dam failures near Edenville, Michigan, sent a torrent of water rushing down the Tittabawassee River, flooding homes, schools, businesses and a university stadium … Parts of the Dow Chemical Co. facilities there are now submerged, as seen in a satellite images from Planet Labs, Inc."

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The World’s Most Controversial Gas Pipeline Is Nearing Its Endgame

May 14, 2020

"Satellite images show a Russian ship is set to challenge U.S. sanctions seeking to halt Nord Stream 2 link"

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What Earth Looks Like When Everything Stops

May 1, 2020

"As life on Earth slowed to a crawl, hundreds of satellites orbiting overhead captured day-by-day images of this unprecedented moment in history."

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Where Is Kim Jong-un? How Experts Track North Korea’s Leader

April 27, 2020

"Rumors are swirling about Kim Jong-un’s location and health. These North Korea experts showed us how they collect information about his secretive regime."

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Videos

The Mission to Create a Searchable Database of Earth's Surface

Planet Co-founder and CEO, Will Marshall, announces Planet's vision of Queryable Earth: to index physical change on Earth and make it searchable for all.

We Can Scan the Whole World, Every Day

The FT’s innovations editor John Thornhill investigates how Planet uses a fleet of tiny satellites to image every inch of the globe, and update it every 24 hours.

Planet Lab's Marshall on the Future of Space Exploration

Planet Labs CEO Will Marshall talks with Bloomberg's Ashlee Vance at The Year Ahead Summit at Bloomberg headquarters in New York about the future of space exploration and what it takes to ring the Earth with satellites.

Satellites the Size of a Shoe Box

US firm Planet Labs makes satellites you could hold in your hands, and has more in orbit than anyone else. "We thought that we could do space a little bit differently," says Planet Labs' co-founder, Will Marshall.

The All Seeing Eye in the Sky

Silicon Valley based startup Planet has one goal: to take a picture of the entire planet every day. To do that, they need to launch the largest number of satellites in human history. In this episode of Ventures, Bloomberg Businessweek's Ashlee Vance journeys to India to watch Planet's satellites hitch a ride on a rocket.

Satellites Help Predict North Korean Nuclear Tests

See how analysts at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies are using satellite imagery to understand ongoing nuclear missile tests.

Planet Labs Plan For Earth

Will Marshall from Planet Labs and Steve Jurvetson from DFJ talk at the Bloomberg Technology Conference about what all those tiny Planet Lab satellites are actually doing up there.

Will Marshall Addresses the UN

Will Marshall addresses the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit. This address took place on September 27, 2015. Video: United Nations.

A Commitment to Sustainability

Planet participated in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Summit where we addressed heads of state on the power of open data and remote sensing to meet the global challenges set forth in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

CEO Will Marshall Dreamforce Keynote

Learn about satellites, big data and the Global Sensing Revolution. Planet CEO, Will Marshall, delivers an Innovation Keynote at Dreamforce 2015.

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