News
Shorebirds, the World's Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction
April 27, 2018
"A worldwide catastrophe is underway among an extraordinary group of birds - the marathon migrants we know as shorebirds. Individuals tracked by satellite have traveled nonstop more than 7,000 miles."
What We Know About the Three Sites Targeted in Syria
April 14, 2018
"The United States, along with France and Britain, launched military strikes on Friday against three sites the Trump administration said were part of Syria’s chemical weapons program."
Satellite Images From Highly Oblique Angles are Pretty Mindblowing
April 2, 2018
"Most traditional satellite images show great detail about the Earth's surface, but as they observe from directly overhead, this vantage point makes the planet look flat. Of course with hills, valleys, mountains, and cities, the surface is anything but flat."
Satellite images reveal show of force by Chinese navy in South China Sea
March 27, 2018
"Dozens of Chinese naval vessels are exercising this week with an aircraft carrier in a large show of force off Hainan island in the South China Sea, satellite images obtained by Reuters show."
Big Ag Wants Farmers to Buy into Satellite Imagery
March 20, 2018
"Understanding what happens on that acreage is complicated - for individual farmers and agriculture conglomerates. Understanding how to improve what's going on is even harder."
North Korea’s Most Powerful Missile Now Has Its Own Shrine
March 17, 2018
"Satellite images taken between last December and March 11 show how North Korea is converting the site of its most powerful missile launch into a monument."
Videos
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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