News
Hurricane Dorian lashes US as Bahamas counts cost
September 5, 2019
"Footage taken from the air showed vast swathes of destruction. Homes, roads and businesses were torn apart, and high waters remain."
Iranian Rocket Launch Ends In Failure, Imagery Shows
August 29, 2019
"Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows that an Iranian rocket appears to have exploded on the launch pad Thursday."
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is ablaze, turning day into night in the city of São Paulo
August 21, 2019
"Huge tracts of the Amazon, which serves as the lungs of the planet by taking in carbon dioxide, storing it in soils and producing oxygen, are ablaze."
Satellites show Brazil's deforestation has only gotten worse since Bolsonaro took office
August 14, 2019
"Newer satellite systems like Planet’s gather daily images at 3 meters per pixel, providing actionable data for environmental regulators."
A deadly mishap in Russia's Far North, and a nuclear mystery lingers
August 12, 2019
"An August 8 picture captured by satellite imaging company Planet Labs, showing the Serebryanka, a nuclear fuel carrier, near the missile test site in Russia where the explosion and fire broke out."
US identifies Chinese tankers carrying Iranian oil
August 4, 2019
"Vessels are helping to transport Iranian crude to China in defiance of US sanctions against Tehran… At least three Kunlun-linked tankers have been spotted interacting with Iranian vessels since May in Planet Labs satellite imagery."
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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