Planet has secured a deal with NASA to continue the provision of satellite imagery technologies to the agency until September as part of the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program.
Read More »SpaceX Sends 11th Batch of Starlink Internet Satellites
SpaceX has launched a new wave of satellites for the company's broadband internet service, cnet reported Tuesday. The company sent the Starlink satellites Tuesday via ride-share from Florida-based Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Read More »L3Harris, Planet Execs Talk Progress, Challenges in Smallsat Dev’t
Two executives from Planet and L3Harris Technologies have cited electronic components and thermal management systems as key factors to the improvement of small-satellite technologies in the market, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
Read More »Planet, NASA Expand Satellite Imagery Subscription Deal
Planet has received a second NASA contract to expand the company's subscription service for satellite imagery across agency-backed research initiatives.
Read More »Planet’s Richard Leshner Talks Space, Cyber Partnership Needs
Richard Leshner, vice president of government and regulatory affairs at Planet’s federal subsidiary, has said that emerging space companies must ensure that they are well-prepared in addressing new cyber threats, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
Read More »Planet Leaders Talk Gov’t Applications for Geospatial Imagery at DC Event
Leaders from Earth-imaging firm Planet have detailed the potential of geospatial data from its Dove satellites to support government operations at an event in Washington, D.C., Space News reported Wednesday.
Read More »Planet Hires Martin Van Ryswyk as Product SVP
Martin Van Ryswyk, a more than 30-year software engineering veteran, has been appointed senior vice president of product at satellite imaging services firm Planet.
Read More »NRO Plans to Buy Satellite Imagery From Multiple Vendors; Maxar’s Tony Frazier Quoted
The National Reconnaissance Office plans to begin in 2020 a new procurement process to buy commercial satellite imagery from several companies, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
Read More »Lockheed Launches New AI Tool for Satellite Image Analysis
Lockheed Martin unveiled a new image analysis tool at the ongoing GEOINT 2019 symposium in San Antonio which uses artificial intelligence to search for specific objects in satellite data, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.
Read More »Planet to Supply Earth Imagery for NASA Climate Studies
Planet received a $6.7M contract to provide Earth observation data to support NASA-backed climate research projects, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
Read More »NGA Exercises Planet Imagery, Automated Processing Contract Option
Satellite imagery provider Planet will continue to provide "high-revisit" satellite imagery to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under a six-month option exercised under a $5.9M contract.
Read More »Report: Planet to Create Federal Subsidiary After Boundless Deal Completion
Planet plans to form a new subsidiary that will support federal customers once the San Francisco-based imaging satellite operator completes its acquisition of geospatial software vendor Boundless, Trajectory Magazine reported Friday.
Read More »SSL Ships Planet’s Two SkySat Imaging Satellites to Vandenberg Air Force Base; Dario Zamarian Quoted
Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary has delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California two Earth observation satellites the company built for Planet. The SSL-made SkySat 14 and 15 will fly aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as part of Spaceflight’s maiden Sun Synchronous rideshare mission for Planet’s constellation that works to provide …
Read More »DigitalGlobe, Spire, Planet to Provide Earth Science Data Under NASA Contracts
NASA has awarded blanket purchase agreements to three companies to provide the agency with Earth observation data sets derived from constellations of commercial small satellites. Maxar Technologies’ DigitalGlobe subsidiary, Planet and Spire received the sole-source contracts under the agency’s Private Sector Small Constellation Satellite Data Product Pilot program, NASA said …
Read More »NGA, Planet Sign CRADA for Imagery Extraction, Analytics
Planet and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have partnered in an effort to increase the process for NGA to extract and analyze commercial imagery. Manuela McCabe, NGA’s Planet CRADA program manager, said in a statement published Thursday both parties signed a cooperative research and development agreement that could yield change detection services such as object monitoring, broad …
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