by Mike Safyan on Jan 21, 2021

Planet is rocketing into the new year with 48 SuperDoves, our Flock 4s, scheduled to fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission. This rideshare mission launching out of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida will deliver Flock 4s to a sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 500 km altitude. These 48 SuperDoves bring improvements to […]

by Asa Strong on Jan 19, 2021

At Planet, we’re committed to reducing the friction of using satellite imagery so our users can gain the greatest value from our data. We do this by partnering with leading GIS-providers and delivering the necessary tools and software needed to derive insights from our data. We’re excited to announce the release of […]

by Tanya Harrison on Jan 12, 2021

All NASA-funded researchers now have continued access to PlanetScope and RapidEye imagery through September 2021 following an extension of our current agreement under NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. Through the NASA CSDA Program, scientists have used Planet imagery for a variety of research projects to date and we’re eager to […]

by Will Marshall on Dec 28, 2020

With a challenging 2020 behind us, I wanted to take a moment to recap an exceptional year for Planet, and peek into the year ahead. First, I want to acknowledge our team. I’m so proud of the resilience Planet has shown throughout this past year. Like many of you, we didn’t know […]

by Agnieszka Lukaszczyk on Dec 8, 2020

The Copernicus Masters is an international competition that awards prizes to developers who leverage Earth observation data to solve important commercial and social problems. We issued a call for submissions to the Planet See Change, Change the World Challenge. This year, we’re in search of novel applications of Planet’s daily global imaging capabilities […]