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Financial Times: Planet Labs rides SpaceX’s reusable rockets to expand earth imaging
June 9, 2020
"Planet has also adapted its own systems, allowing its satellites to be managed largely remotely with an automated mission control. It has updated its “tasking” dashboard to make it easier for customers to request data from a specific locations without any “humans in the loop”, Mr Marshall said. “That’s very unusual in the space business.”"
How Planet’s new satellite fleet will bring detailed images of places on Earth up to 12 times a day
June 9, 2020
"Satellite imagery specialist Planet unveiled on Tuesday how the completion of its SkySat fleet will allow customers to more quickly access detailed imagery of anywhere in the world."
Satellites Are Capturing the Protests, and Just About Everything Else on Earth
June 9, 2020
"Over the next couple months, Planet is embarking on a project that will dramatically increase the number of photos it takes and improve the quality of the images by 25% in terms of resolution. To do that, the company is lowering the orbits of some of its larger, high-resolution satellites and launching a half-dozen more devices."
Planet teams with SpaceX to expand its Earth-observation constellation
June 9, 2020
"As time has gone on, customers have begun to ask for higher-resolution imagery. So in recent years, Planet acquired a small fleet of larger satellites known as SkySats, capable of taking pictures with a resolution of less than a meter. Fifteen SkySats are currently in space, and the company hopes to add six more over this summer."
Planet's satellites aim for still sharper view of Earth
June 9, 2020
"Planet will then have 21 of the high-resolution imagers circling the globe. At that point, the SkySats will be able to see any spot on the ground (cloud permitting) on average up seven times a day."
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"."
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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