American company specializing in satellite imaging of Earth
Planet Labs PBC
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Formerly
| - Cosmogia, Inc.
- Planet Labs, Inc.
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Company type
| Public
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| NYSE
:
PL
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Industry
| |
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Founded
| December 29, 2010
; 13 years ago
(
2010-12-29
)
[1]
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Founder
| [1]
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Headquarters
| ,
United States
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Area served
| Worldwide
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Key people
| [1]
[2]
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Products
| "Dove", "
RapidEye
", and "
SkySat
" imaging satellites
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Services
| Satellite-based Earth imaging and analytics
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Revenue
| - US$191.3M (2022)
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Number of employees
| 1090
(as of 11 January 2023
[update]
)
[3]
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Website
| planet
.com
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Planet Labs PBC
(formerly
Planet Labs, Inc.
and
Cosmogia, Inc.
) is a
publicly trading
American
Earth imaging
company based in
San Francisco, California
.
[1]
[4]
Their goal is to image the entirety of the Earth daily to monitor changes and pinpoint trends.
[5]
The company designs and manufactures 3U-
CubeSat
miniature satellites
called
Doves
that are then delivered into orbit as secondary payloads on other rocket launch missions. Each
Dove
is equipped with a high-powered telescope and camera programmed to capture different swaths of Earth.
[6]
Each
Dove
Earth observation satellite
continuously scans
Earth
, sending data once it passes over a ground station, by means of a
frame image sensor
.
[7]
The images gathered by
Doves
, which can be accessed online and some of which is available under an
open data
access policy,
[8]
provide up-to-date information relevant to climate monitoring, crop yield prediction, urban planning, and disaster response.
[1]
With acquisition of
BlackBridge
in July 2015, Planet Labs had 87
Dove
and 5
RapidEye
satellites launched into orbit.
[9]
In 2017, Planet launched an additional 88 Dove satellites, and
Google
sold its subsidiary
Terra Bella
and its SkySat satellite constellation to Planet Labs.
[10]
[11]
[12]
By September 2018 the company had launched nearly 300 satellites, 150 of which are active.
[13]
In 2020, Planet Labs launched six additional high-resolution SkySats, SkySats 16?21, and 35 Dove satellites.
[14]
Through a deal funded by Norway's Climate and Forests Initiative (NICFI), Planet and its partners Airbus and KSAT are providing access to high-resolution basemaps of 64 tropical countries to help combat deforestation.
[15]
It also provides data to
FAO
's Framework for Ecosystem Monitoring (Ferm).
[16]
Following a January 2021 launch of 48 Planet SuperDoves, the company operated a global constellation of over 200 active satellites.
[17]
In July 2021 Planet Labs announced that they plan to become a
public company
and list on the
New York Stock Exchange
through a merger with the
SPAC
DMY Technology Group Inc IV. The deal would value Planet at US$2.8B.
[18]
[19]
The business combination was completed on December 7, 2021. Planet registered as a
public benefit corporation
and formally changed its name to Planet Labs PBC.
[4]
The stock began trading on the
New York Stock Exchange
on December 8, 2021. After the merger, Planet had more than $500 million in capital and about 190 satellites in orbit. The company expected it to take the next few years until they get to cashflow breakeven, funding their operations with $200 million from the aforementioned $500 million (the rest $300 million forming a "strategic warchest"). At the time of the merger, the company had over 600 customers (most customers, 90%, are annual subscriptions to Planet's data service) and it generated $113 million in revenue in 2020. At the time of the merger, Planet aimed to be profitable on an adjusted EBITDA basis by early 2025, and to grow its annual revenue to nearly $700 million by early 2026.
[20]
Planet Labs has contracts to supply imagery to various agencies of the US government, including the
FAS
,
NOAA
,
Oak Ridge
,
Sandia
, the
Bureau of Reclamation
, and
NASA
.
[21]
History
[
edit
]
Planet Labs was founded in 2010 as
Cosmogia
by former
NASA
scientists Chris Boshuizen, Will Marshall, and Robbie Schingler, who teamed up with John Kuolt in 2011 during his studies at Oxford University with a thesis to leverage the processing power of mobile phones to power the avionics of a nano-satellite. Mr. Kuolt's EP (Entrepreneurial Project) at Oxford University became the original business plan for Planet.
[22]
[23]
[24]
The initial goal of the company was to make use of information gathered from space to help with life on Earth. The group of scientists considered the problem with most satellites to be their large and clunky form, prompting them to build inexpensive and compact satellites to be manufactured in bulk, called CubeSats. The small group began building Planet's first satellite in a California garage.
[25]
Planet Labs launched two demonstration
CubeSats
, Dove 1 and
Dove 2
, in April 2013.
[26]
Both Dove 1 (aboard Antares 110 rocket) and Dove 2 (aboard a Soyuz Rocket) were placed in a
Sun-synchronous orbit
.
[27]
Dove 3 and Dove 4 were launched in November 2013.
[23]
In June 2013, it announced plans for
Flock-1
, a constellation of 28 Earth-observing satellites.
[26]
The Flock-1 CubeSats were brought to the
International Space Station
in January 2014
[28]
and deployed via the
NanoRacks
CubeSat Deployer
in mid-February.
[29]
The company planned to launch a total of 131 satellites by mid-2015.
[30]
In January 2015, the firm raised $95 million in funding.
[31]
As of May 2015, Planet Labs raised a total amount of $183 million in
venture capital financing
.
[32]
In July 2015, Planet Labs
acquired
BlackBridge
and its
RapidEye constellation
.
[33]
On April 18, 2017, Google completed the sale of Terra Bella and its
SkySat
satellite constellation to Planet Labs.
[10]
[11]
[34]
As part of the sale, Google acquired an
equity stake
in Planet and entered into a multi-year agreement to purchase SkySat imaging data.
[35]
On January 21, 2018, a
Dove Pioneer
CubeSat was part of the payload of a
Rocket Lab
Electron rocket
, the first orbital-entry craft launched from a privately owned and operated spaceport at
M?hia Peninsula
in
New Zealand
.
[36]
In July 2018, Planet laid off somewhat less than ten percent of its workforce.
[37]
In September 2018, the company had launched a total of 298 satellites, 150 of which were still active.
[13]
On December 18, 2018, Planet announced they were in the process of acquiring the St Louis company, Boundless Spatial, Inc., a
geospatial data
software company.
[38]
[39]
Several weeks after their acquisition of Boundless, Planet's attorneys asserted that executives from Boundless had failed to disclose “information concerning material customer contracts,” and the acquisition was thereafter renegotiated down by more than half, from $40M to $16M. According to Quartz, the executives of Boundless had failed to disclose details concerning work, or details concerning future work, with the NGA
[40]
On 3 July 2020, it was mentioned in the news that the company had "more than 120" active satellites at the time "providing daily imaging coverage over all of the world's landmass".
[41]
In August 2020, Planet completed its SkySat Constellation of 21 satellites by launching the final three SkySats on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
[42]
In May 2022, SES Government Solutions (now
SES Space & Defense
), a wholly-owned subsidiary of
communications satellite
owner and operator,
SES
, in partnership with Planet Labs, was awarded a US$28.96 million contract from
NASA
's Communications Services Project for
real-time
,
always-on
low-latency connectivity services to NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit for routine missions, contingency operations, launch and ascent, and early operations phase communications, using SES's
geostationary orbiting
C-band
satellites and
medium Earth orbiting
Ka-band
satellites, including the forthcoming
O3b mPOWER
constellation.
[43]
[44]
In August 2023, Planet cited "restructuring" as the reason for laying off 10% of its employees, about 120 individuals.
[45]
CEO William Marshall released a statement saying, "I want to be clear that I am responsible for the decisions that led us here. I know this has significant effects on the lives of our team and their families, and for that I am sorry."
[46]
Flock satellite constellations
[
edit
]
Planet's PlanetScope Dove satellite constellation is designed to observe Earth. By using several small satellites, CubeSats, the constellation produces three to five meters high resolution images of Earth. The flock collects images from latitudes that are within 52 degrees of Earth's equator.
[47]
A large portion of the world's agricultural regions and population lie within the area imaged by the flock.
[47]
Initially, the mission used the ISS (
International Space Station
) and different track launch vehicles to get in orbit.
[48]
Dove
[
edit
]
Planet's Dove satellites are
CubeSats
that weigh 4 kilograms (8.8 lb) (1000 times lower than other commercial imaging satellites), 10 by 10 by 30 centimetres (3.9 in × 3.9 in × 11.8 in) in length, width and height,
[49]
orbit at a height of about 400 kilometres (250 mi) and provide imagery with a resolution of 3?5 metres (9.8?16.4 ft) and envisaged environmental, humanitarian, and business applications.
[50]
[51]
- Flock 1c
, consisting of 11 Dove satellites, was successfully launched on 19 June 2014 with a
Dnepr
rocket on a record-breaking launch that carried to orbit the largest number of satellites up to that time, 37.
[52]
- Flock 1b
, consisting of 28 Dove satellites, was successfully launched to the
ISS
on 13 July 2014 with the
Cygnus Orb-2
cargo mission.
[53]
All of those satellites have been deployed from the ISS but 6, that have been returned to Earth with the
SpaceX CRS-5
mission 212 days later.
[54]
- Flock 1d
, consisting of 26 Dove satellites, was supposed to be carried to the ISS with the
Cygnus Orb-3
cargo mission but was lost due the
Antares
rocket exploding seconds after liftoff.
[55]
- Flock 1d'
, consisting of 2 Dove satellites, was launched successfully as a replacement of the lost
Flock 1d
group on 10 January 2015 with the
SpaceX CRS-5
cargo mission
[56]
and was later deployed from the ISS on 3 March 2015.
[54]
Decayed on 13 October and 17 December 2015 respectively.
- Flock 1e
, consisting of 14 Dove satellites, was successfully launched on 14 April 2015 with the
SpaceX CRS-6
cargo mission
[57]
and was later deployed from the ISS between the 13 and the 16 July 2015.
[54]
- Flock 1f
, consisting of 8 Dove satellites, was supposed to be carried to the ISS on 28 June 2015 with the
SpaceX CRS-7
cargo mission but was lost due to the
Falcon 9
rocket disintegrating 139 seconds into the flight.
[58]
- Flock 2b
, consisting of 14 Dove satellites, was successfully launched on 19 August 2015 with the
HTV-5
cargo mission
[59]
and all but two satellites of the group has been deployed from the ISS, starting from 15 September 2015.
[54]
- Flock 2e
, consisting of 12 Dove Satellites, was successfully launched on 6 December 2015 with the
Cygnus OA-4
cargo mission
[60]
and was deployed from the ISS between 17 May and 1 June 2016.
[54]
Decayed between 25 July 2017 and 14 August 2018.
- Flock 2e'
, consisting of 20 Dove Satellites, was successfully launched on 23 March 2016 with the
Cygnus OA-6
cargo mission
[61]
and was deployed from the ISS between 17 May and 14 September 2016.
[54]
Decayed between 3 October 2017 and 10 November 2018.
- Flock 2p
, consisting of twelve Dove satellites, and
Flock 3p
, consisting of 88 Dove satellites, were launched from
Satish Dhawan Space Centre
in
Sriharikota
,
India
, by
ISRO
(Indian Space Research Organization)
PSLV-C37
on 22 June 2016 and 15 February 2017, respectively.
[62]
[54]
[63]
Flock 3p
was the largest satellite fleet ever launched.
[64]
- Flock 2k
, consisting of 48 Dove satellites, launched to 485 km altitude orbit on 14 July 2017 aboard
Soyuz-2.1a
.
[65]
[66]
[67]
- Flock 3m
, consisting of 4 Dove satellites, was launched on 31 October 2017 on a
Minotaur C
rocket, along with six of Planet's
SkySat
satellites.
[68]
- Flock 3p'
, consisting of 4 Dove satellites, was launched in India
ISRO
's
PSLV-C40
mission on 12 January 2018.
[69]
Decayed between 18 March and 17 August 2023.
- A single Dove satellite nicknamed
Dove Pioneer
was launched on 21 January 2018 onboard the first successful flight (and second overall) of
Rocket Lab Electron
rocket.
[70]
Decayed on 22 September 2019.
- Flock 3r
, consisting of 16 Dove satellites, was successfully launched on 29 November 2018 with the
PSLV-C43
mission.
[71]
- Flock 3s,
consisting of 3 satellites, was successfully launched on 3 December 2018 to a 575 km altitude orbit aboard a
SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket from
Vandenberg Air Force Base
in California.
[72]
[73]
- Flock 3k,
consisting of 12 Dove satellites, was successfully launched on 27 December 2018. The flock was launched on a Soyuz Rocket from the
Vostochny Cosmodrome
in Russia into a
sun-synchronous
orbit.
[74]
[75]
- Flock 4a,
launched 1 April 2019, consisting of 20 SuperDoves, was the first flock including satellites with improved imaging technology. The flock was delivered to 504 km sun-synchronous orbit on
ISRO
's
PSLV-C45
rocket.
[76]
[77]
- Flock 4p,
consisting 12 SuperDoves
[78]
with multiple spectral bands and other improvements was launched at 03:58 UTC on 27 November 2019 by PSLV C47 into a
sun-synchronous
orbit.
[79]
[80]
- Flock 4e,
consisting of 5 SuperDoves was planned to be launched into a 500 km
SSO orbit
onboard
Electron
on 4 July 2020.
[81]
However, due to a failure during the second stage burn, the payloads failed to reach orbit.
[82]
- Flock-4v
, consisting of 26 SuperDoves, was successfully launched on 3 September 2020 with a
Vega
rocket as part of the Small Satellites Mission Service Proof of Concept (SSMS PoC) mission.
[83]
- Flock 4e
’, consisting of 9 SuperDoves, was successfully launched on Rocket Labs Electron Rocket on 28 October 28 2020.
[84]
- Flock 4s
, consisting of 48 SuperDoves, was successfully launched on SpaceX's Transporter-1 mission. This record-breaking launch successfully deployed 143 satellites - the most ever on a single mission.
[17]
- Flock 4x
, consisting of 44 SuperDoves, was successfully launched on SpaceX's Transporter-3 mission on 13 January 2022.
[85]
- Flock 4y
, consisting of 36 SuperDoves, was successfully launched on SpaceX's Transporter-6 mission on 3 January 2023.
[86]
- Flock 4q
, consisting of 36 SuperDoves, was successfully launched on SpaceX's Transporter-9 mission on 11 November 2023.
[87]
Three images of
Mount Dukono
located in the northern part of
Halmahera
island,
Indonesia
. Due to the Dove satellites orbiting in "flocks", it's possible to make daily or even hourly image updates of the Earth's surface.
RapidEye
[
edit
]
RapidEye
was a five-satellite constellation producing 5 metres (16 ft) resolution imagery that Planet acquired from the German company BlackBridge.
The satellites were built by
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL)
[88]
of
Guildford
, subcontracted by
MacDonald Dettwiler (MDA)
of Richmond, Canada. Each satellite was based on an evolution of the flight-proven
SSTL-150
[89]
bus, measuring less than 1 cubic metre (35 cu ft) and weighing 150 kilograms (330 lb) (bus + payload) each. They were launched on 29 August 2008 on a
Dnepr rocket
from
Baikonur cosmodrome
in
Kazakhstan
.
[90]
Each of RapidEye's five satellites contained identical Jena-Optronik Spaceborne Scanner JSS 56
[91]
multi-spectral
pushbroom sensor
imagers. The five satellites traveled on the same orbital plane (at an altitude of 630 km), and together were capable of collecting over 4 million kilometres (2.5
×
10
^
6
mi) of 5 metres (16 ft) resolution, 5-band color imagery every day. They collected data in the Blue (440?510 nm), Green (520?590 nm), Red (630?690 nm), Red-Edge (690?730 nm) and
Near-Infrared
(760?880 nm).
The RapidEye constellation was officially retired in April 2020.
[92]
SkySat
[
edit
]
SkySat
is a constellation of sub-metre resolution
Earth observation satellites
that provide imagery, high-definition video and analytics services.
[34]
Planet acquired the satellites with their purchase of Terra Bella (formerly Skybox Imaging), a
Mountain View, California
-based company founded in 2009 by Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick, and Ching-Yu Hu,
[93]
from Google in 2017.
[94]
The SkySat satellites are based on using inexpensive automotive grade electronics and fast commercially available processors,
[95]
but scaled up to approximately the size of a
minifridge
.
[96]
The satellites are approximately 80 centimetres (31 in) long, compared to approximately 30 centimetres (12 in) for a 3U CubeSat, and weigh 100 kilograms (220 lb).
[96]
The first SkySat satellite, SkySat-1, was launched on a
Dnepr (rocket)
from
Yasny, Russia
on 21 November 2013,
[97]
and the second, SkySat-2, launched on a
Soyuz-2
/Fregat rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on 8 July 2014.
[98]
Four more SkySat units were launched on 16 September 2016, by the
Vega rocket
's seventh flight from
Kourou
,
[99]
and six more SkySat satellites, along with four Dove CubeSats, were launched on a
Minotaur-C
rocket from
Vandenberg Air Force Base
on 31 October 2017.
[100]
[101]
In 2020, Planet lowered their constellation of 15 SkySats from an altitude of 500 kilometers to 450 kilometers to improve the resolution of orthorectified imagery from 80 centimeters to 50 centimeters per pixel.
[102]
On June 13, 2020, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched SkySats 16, 17 and 18 along with a batch of its Starlink communications satellites.
[103]
SkySats 19, 20 and 21 were launched on August 18, 2020 on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. This completed the SkySat fleet of 21 high-resolution satellites.
[104]
When launched, the SkySat constellation was orbiting at an altitude of 450 kilometres (280 mi) and has a multispectral, panchromatic, and video sensor. It has a spatial resolution of 0.9 metres in its 400?900 nm panchromatic band, making it the smallest satellite to be put in orbit capable of such high resolution imagery. The multispectral sensor collects data in blue (450?515 nm), green (515?595 nm), red (605?695 nm), and near-infrared (740?900 nm) bands, all at 2 metre resolution.
[105]
Pelican
[
edit
]
The Pelican constellation is a constellation of Earth observation satellites to succeed the SkySat constellation.
[106]
The constellation is expected to consist of 32 spacecraft and will be based on a new design that includes Planet's next generation of imaging sensors, capable of capturing images with a 30 cm resolution. The constellation will have a revisit rate up to 10 times per day for most of the globe, up to 30 times per day at mid-latitudes.
[107]
The first demonstrator satellite, Pelican-1, has been launched on 11 November 2023 on SpaceX Transporter-9 mission and wlll validate the satellite platform, that will be used also on the Tanager satellites, without providing any commercially available data.
[108]
See also
[
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]
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