06 February 2017
Planet and Google announce final stages of Terra Bella deal
...San Fransisco, California. The acquisition includes all of Terra Bella's business dealings, along with its seven SkySat satellites. Google is subsequently expected to sign a contract to purchase imaging data from Planet. Planet was originally founded...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... scale up their constellation. On the 10th June 2014, one month before launching their second satellite SkySat-2, Skybox Imaging announced publicly their acquisition from Google for $500m8. Simplified representation of spacecraft characteristics from...
November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
...and high definition (HD) video capability at VHR (1 m or better) spatial resolution. Planet already has a number of its SkySat satellites in space, providing black and white (panchromatic channel) video capability with VHR. However, colour images ...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... have brought us to a place where we can, potentially, do near real-time environmental monitoring at a global scale. Planet s SkySat constellation captured seven images of a train station along the Trans-Siberian railway in Northern Russia – all...
