by Will Marshall on Dec 3, 2015

We’ve pledged 1%. Planet’s vision is to use space to help life on Earth. And now, I’m excited to announce that Planet Labs is joining other companies in committing to the Pledge 1% campaign, a “corporate philanthropy movement dedicated to making the community a key stakeholder in every business.”

by Mike Safyan on Nov 30, 2015

UPDATE: The launch of Flock 2e has been delayed due to weather. The next attempt will be at 5:33 pm eastern on Friday, December 4. In Cape Canaveral, Florida, twelve of our Dove satellites are packed in the Cygnus spacecraft ready for launch. We’re calling these Doves “Flock 2e”. The Cygnus sits […]

by Tom Barton on Nov 23, 2015

We’re growing! Planet Labs is excited to welcome three new members to our executive team: David Oppenheimer, Chief Financial Officer; Andy Wild, Chief Revenue Officer; and Karthik Govindhasamy, SVP Spacecraft Engineering. All three are key additions for us as we expand our satellite constellation and imagery dataset, sign more customer contracts, and […]

by Tim Schaub on Nov 19, 2015

A key part of being successful on a global scale is to build products that can be localized for a diverse set of users. We have been hard at work making our web applications accessible to an international audience, and we now have a complete Chinese translation for our Scenes Explorer and […]

by Jacob Straszynski on Nov 11, 2015

Many of our users already have their own vector data to define areas of interest. You can now upload GeoJSON files—a lightweight format for representing geographical features—up to 1 MB in size, via Planet’s APIs and Web Applications.