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Planet’s New Rapid Revisit Platform to Capture Up to 12 Images Per Day

Fine details of Las Vegas’s extravagant hotels, casinos and attractions are visible in Planet’s 50 centimeter data. SkySat image collected on April 28, 2020 from an altitude of 456 kilometers. © 2020, Planet Labs Inc. All Rights Reserved.News

When Planet acquired the SkySat constellation from Google in 2017, we set to work redesigning the complex infrastructure needed to task, collect and deliver imagery. We gave customers an experience that is highly automated and responsive so they can worry about insights, not satellites. Today we are announcing a new rapid revisit capability that empowers our customers to capture imagery of a single location on Earth up to 12 times per day. This new capability will be enabled by two upcoming SpaceX Falcon 9 launches that will deliver six new SkySats into space. The first three are scheduled for launch in the coming weeks, and the next three in July. The six SkySats will be placed into orbit planes inclined at 53 degrees, and will double the average revisits over any point on Earth. For certain locations, especially those near 53 degrees latitude, we will capture imagery up to 12 times during the day, and at the global level, we will have an average of 7 revisits per day. This capability, combined with improved 50 cm imagery and a new Tasking Dashboard, will unlock unprecedented visibility into activities across the world and create a new paradigm for Earth observation. [caption id="attachment_144958" align="aligncenter" width="2160"]

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