https://spacewatch.global/tag/planet-labs/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 19 May 2026 08:39:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/planet-labs/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2026/05/synmax-bets-on-agentic-ai-to-move-from-data-vendor-to-intelligence-company/ Fri, 15 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=73920 SynMax founder Eric Anderson outlines the Houston startup's evolution from natural gas analytics to maritime intelligence - and why he believes agentic AI, not chat interfaces, will drive its leap from data vendor to full-spectrum intelligence company.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/09/scott-reese-has-been-elected-into-planet-labs-board-of-directors/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=67831 Planet Labs PBC has announced the election of Scott Reese to Planet’s board of directors by stockholder written consent, to be effective later this year. Mr. Reese is the Chief Executive Officer of the Electrification Software business at GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV), a $150 billion plus market capitalization purpose-built global energy company.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/08/planet-launches-pelican-3-and-4-satellites-to-supplement-its-constellation-of-tasking-satellites/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=67365 Planet Labs has launched its high-resolution, AI-enabled Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 satellites to orbit on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Planet team successfully made contact with Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 and began the commissioning processes for these satellites.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2025/07/noaas-office-of-space-commerce-announce-spacex-as-latest-tracss-beta-user/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=66276 NOAA's OSC has announced SpaceX as the newest and tenth beta user of the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS). With SpaceX, TraCSS can now validate its on-demand conjunction screening and on-demand maneuver screening service at significant scale – a major milestone in OSC’s mission to enhance civil and commercial space safety]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/09/nasa-selects-companies-for-commercial-smallsat-contract/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:00:46 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=56874 NASA has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency. The Agency's Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program On-Ramp1 Multiple Award contract is a firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract with a maximum value of $476 million, cumulatively amongst all the selected contractors, and a performance period through Nov. 15, 2028.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2024/06/planet-labs-to-lay-off-17-of-global-workforce/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:00:28 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=55856 https://spacewatch.global/2023/07/impact-observatory-and-planet-labs-announce-partnership/ Fri, 14 Jul 2023 06:00:26 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=49978 Impact Observatory, a US-based space observation system company, announced on the 5th of July that it has entered into a partnership with Planet Labs PBC, a provider of daily data and insights around the world. The partnership uses AI-powered analytics to monitor land cover and land use (LULC) on top of Planet Lab’s high-frequency, medium- and high-resolution satellite data. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/07/impact-observatory-partners-with-planet-for-change-monitoring/ Mon, 10 Jul 2023 06:00:03 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=49873 Impact Observatory has partnered with Planet Labs to use AI-powered analytics to monitor land cover and land use (LULC) on top of Planet’s high-frequency, medium- and high-resolution satellite data. Automated analytics are core to helping customers better understand changes and anticipate threats at previously unobtainable speed and scale]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/05/iceye-and-esa-are-partnering-on-space-entrepreneurship/ Mon, 29 May 2023 06:00:38 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=49090 The European Space Agency (ESA) and ICEYE have signed a letter of intent to empower entrepreneurship and encourage the development of commercially viable and sustainability-minded space solutions. The collaboration falls under the ESA Partnership Initiative for Commercialization (EPIC) and targets companies which the ESA Business Incubation Centers (ESA BICs), ESA Technology Brokers and ESA Φ-labNET support. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/12/planets-financial-results-for-q3-2023/ Thu, 15 Dec 2022 07:00:23 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=45505 Satellite imagery and spatial solutions provider, Planet Labs, shared its financial results for the third quarter for the period ending October 31, 2022, demonstrating continued growth and momentum, the company said.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/german-industry-kicks-off-new-space-initiative/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:00:29 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=37639 The Federation of German Industries (BDI) partners with five associations and 26 companies to establish a new space initiative and strengthen “networking between space, start-ups and industry”, the federation said. "With this new initiative, the BDI wants to send a strong signal of a joint departure in space for Germany and Europe," said BDI CEO Joachim Lang. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/10/planet-labs-unveils-new-imagery-satellites/ Fri, 15 Oct 2021 06:00:11 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=36467 Planet Labs announced the launch of Pelican, a new line of imagery satellites to upgrade the company’s existing constellation of the 21 SkySat spacecraft. With the new, higher-resolution satellites the company can provide faster and near-real time data to customers, Planet said.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/07/planet-goes-public-with-spac-valued-at-2-8-billion/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 06:00:24 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=34272&preview=true&preview_id=34272 More space at the stock exchange: the Earth observation company Planet will go public at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in a SPAC transaction valuing the startup at $2.8 billion, Planet said. It entered into a merger agreement with dMY Technology Group, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/10/spacewatchgl-opinion-earth-the-final-countdown-using-space-to-save-the-planet/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=26788&preview=true&preview_id=26788 by Dalibor Djuran, Planet LabsPlanet’s Family of Dove Satellites; Credits: Planet“Space, the final frontier.” We all remember these words spoken by the Capt. Kirk of the USS Enterprise. The Star Trek show brought space into American homes in the sixties. In the peak of the space race, Start Trek focused on space as a final frontier that needs to be conquered.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/06/carbonix-separation-systems-deploy-planet-skysats-into-orbit-on-falcon-9/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:00:17 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=23538 Exolaunch, a German rideshare launch and deployment solutions provider, confirmed that CarboNIX, its newly developed separation system, successfully deployed three Planet SkySats microsatellites into low Earth orbit on SpaceX’s ninth Starlink mission.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/historic-rapideye-constellation-captures-last-light/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 05:00:35 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21285 This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/11/digitalglobes-worldview-4-commercial-earth-observation-satellite-successfully-launched/ Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:00:25 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=1434 This content is for members only. 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