Planet Labs
A U.S. commercial remote sensing satellite company that acquires more than three million square kilometers of satellite imagery daily and is a representative organization in the modern commercial remote sensing industry.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Organizations such as Bellingcat and 38 North have long used high-resolution imagery provided by commercial satellite operators including Planet Labs and Maxar to track developments at North Korea's nuclear facilities, missile launch activities, and the expansion of labor camps.
A prototype satellite from Google and Planet Labs has been successfully launched into orbit, with SpaceX performing the launch and achieving booster recovery landing.
Planet Labs' Dove-series satellite constellation can complete one full-coverage image capture of Earth's land surface per day, generating several TB to PB of imagery data daily.
In this mission, SpaceX provided launch services and recovered the booster, Planet provided the satellite platform, and Google contributed computing power and the computing concept.
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Organizations such as Bellingcat and 38 North have long used high-resolution imagery provided by commercial satellite operators including Planet Labs and Maxar to track developments at North Korea's nuclear facilities, missile launch activities, and the expansion of labor camps.
50%UnverifiedPlanet Labs' Dove-series satellite constellation can complete one full-coverage image capture of Earth's land surface per day, generating several TB to PB of imagery data daily.
50%UnverifiedIn this mission, SpaceX provided launch services and recovered the booster, Planet provided the satellite platform, and Google contributed computing power and the computing concept.
50%UnverifiedA prototype satellite from Google and Planet Labs has been successfully launched into orbit, with SpaceX performing the launch and achieving booster recovery landing.
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