August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
... and, if a customer is not ready for the launch, they can be replaced by a different Cubesat customer waiting on standby. Planet Labs co-founder and chief strategy officer, Robby Schingler, makes traditional launch-day pancakes with the team...
06 February 2017
Planet and Google announce final stages of Terra Bella deal
... is subsequently expected to sign a contract to purchase imaging data from Planet. Planet was originally founded in 2010 as Cosmogia , and had later changed its name to Planet Labs. The company's main focus is medium-resolution images from cubesat...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... And this is exactly what Planet Labs has been doing for the last couple of years. Planet Labs is a well-known NewSpace start...are more and more mature and always gaining in commercial value. Planet Labs is now closing a planned $70m Series C round in ...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... Today a new standard is the “three unit” (3U) Planet Labs’ imaging CubeSat for Earth Observation data products, and more recently... not reach orbit, there are waves of next generation Planet Labs’ CubeSats, called Doves, ready to “fly.” Time speeds...
15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... announced that it won a three-launch contract from remote sensing satellite company Planet, formerly Planet Labs. As per this contract, three of Planet's Dove satellites will be launched on Electron vehicles. A Dove satellite is a three-unit cubesat...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
...has been upended by the rise of companies like Planet Labs, Terra Bella, UrtheCast, BlackSky and others that ...observation satellites, as well as ubiquitous commercial access thanks to Planet Labs and others, more and more countries in the Middle East ...
