October 2024
Simplicity is the space industry’s secret weapon
.... These are not the type we need. Planet co-founders Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler hold a model of a Dove satellite in Planet’s headquarters in San Francisco, California. In 2002, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos issued his apocryphal ‘API...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... the perfect fit for me. While others didn’t want to spend time on something they thought would go nowhere, I dove in and I got to lay the foundation for a whole new area of science. With thousands of exoplanets now confirmed...
29 June 2015
SpaceX Falcon 9 failure: will launch markets and manned spaceflight be affected?
.... http://t.co/TzppXmL8pH pic.twitter.com/GxUjaQjfrh — Ed Yong (@edyong209) June 29, 2015 Today Falcon9 failed w/ 8 @planetlabs Doves aboard. Tough day but we will go on; spreading risk on many rockets https://t.co/6oHlnHDRaK — Will Marshall (@wsm1...
06 February 2017
Planet and Google announce final stages of Terra Bella deal
... to users.” Additional satellites will be launched by both companies in 2017. Planet is planning its biggest launch yet, with 88 Dove satellites launching on February 14th. In turn, Terra Bella was planning to launch six SkySat satellites later this...
26 September 2017
Rocket Lab to fly Planet and Spire satellites on second test flight
... Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand. Rocket Lab’s Electron orbital launch vehicle will carry two Earth-imaging Dove satellites for Planet and two Lemur-2 satellites from Spire for weather mapping and ship traffic...
08 December 2017
Second test launch window for trailblazing Electron rocket
... will carry two Lemur-2 satellites for Spire for weather and ship tracking, and an Earth-imaging Dove satellite for Planet. The launch will enable Rocket Lab to gather crucial data and test systems...
