Earth observation company Planet announced June 26 it is laying off about 180 employees, or 17% of its workforce, in an effort to reduce costs.

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Planet's senior vice president Troy Toman says the company is resetting expectations around AI’s capabilities to solve complex problems

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Planet’s first hyperspectral satellite is ready for launch to help push the Earth observation operator to profitability by early next year.

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SES says it has successfully tested a relay communications link between one of its satellites in medium Earth orbit and a low Earth orbit flight-representative terminal on the ground.

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The Planet Insights Platform is designed to help government and commercial customers rapidly analyze, stream and distribute data.

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Planet announced a $20 million agreement to provide hyperspectral data for Carbon Mapper’s greenhouse gas monitoring campaign from 2026 to 2030.

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Synthetaic uses artificial intelligence to analyze data from space and air sensors.

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It will take a coalition of government agencies working with the private sector to tackle the grand challenge here: comprehensive, sustained, operational monitoring to drive methane and CO2 emission reductions globally.

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Satellites are playing a growing role in identifying methane sources at a time when the international community is focused on curbing emissions.

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SpaceX launched more than 100 satellites in the ninth in a series of dedicated smallsat rideshare missions Nov. 11, the latest flight in a program that has generated both delight and disdain across the commercial space industry.

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Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced that it has expanded contracts with existing customers across the Canadian provincial governments, […]

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The FCC is requiring more operators of satellite constellations to work with astronomers to minimize the effects their satellites will have on ground-based astronomy.

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Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced it has won a new contract with a Ministry of Foreign Affairs in […]

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Researchers at the University of Warwick investigated the “birth environment” of planets – areas of gas and dust that swirl around a central star – known as the protoplanetary disc. […]

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Planet is working with partners to “get value out of our data,” said Kevin Weil, Planet’s president of product and business.

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Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced the extension of their strategic partnership with AXA Climate, a company that provides […]

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As space technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, the role of commercial industry in national defense has become a hot topic, the chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force Gen. B. Chance Saltzman said April 13.

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The way in which commercial imagery is procured by the government does not necessarily support military commanders’ needs for timely intelligence, officials said at the Planet Explore 2023 conference.

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Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a global environmental organization dedicated to conserving the lands and […]

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Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the business of Holding Sinergise d.o.o. […]

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Maxar, Planet and BlackSky are working to expand their offerings beyond optical imagery.

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The National Reconnaissance Office has signed five-year agreements with six commercial providers of hyperspectral satellite imagery

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Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced that they have solidified a Strategic Partnership with Arizona State University (ASU) to […]

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Days after the Chinese spy balloon was shot down by the U.S. military off the coast of South Carolina, AI startup Synthetaic backtracked the balloon’s trajectory across the continental United States using Earth imaging data from Planet satellites. 

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