Defense Tech BaseCommercial Earth-observation company that builds and operates satellite constellations and provides daily imagery and analytics.
What does Planet Labs offer?
Planet publishes monitoring, tasking, analytic feeds and an imagery platform, with satellite families supporting different collection needs. A data subscription, a requested collection and a derived analytic feed are different deliverables. For an application founder, the important product boundary is the data or service you can integrate and the terms under which your customer can use it.
Questions for a shortlist
Define the area, observation period, product level and delivery interface you need. Ask about collection availability, failed or unusable collections, archive access and license terms for derived outputs and customer redistribution. Validate the end-to-end delivery workflow using representative data rather than relying only on a resolution or revisit headline.
At a glance
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Capabilities
- Space systems, Mission software
- Markets
- Defense, National security, Space
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Patent publications
17 patent publications.
- Systems for synthetic aperture radar transmit and receive antennasUS 11609324 B2 · Utility patent grant · Mar 21, 2023
- Controlling a line of sight angle of an imaging platformUS 11330180 B2 · Utility patent grant · May 10, 2022
- Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methodsUS 10979137 B2 · Utility patent grant · Apr 13, 2021
- Systems and methods for implementing time delay integration imaging techniques in conjunction with distinct imaging regions on a monolithic charge-coupled device image sensorUS 10958859 B2 · Utility patent grant · Mar 23, 2021
- Restraint system for deployment of a feature on a satelliteUS 10815011 B2 · Utility patent grant · Oct 27, 2020