Planet Labs
| Planet Labs
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| legal form | Incorporated |
| founding | 2010 |
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 San Francisco , California
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| Branch | Earth observation |
| Website | www.planet.com |
Planet Labs, Inc. (previously Cosmogia, Inc. ) is an American earth observation company . The company operates a constellation of earth observation satellites and markets the images recorded with them.
The company RapidEye AG , which operated the RapidEye Constellation satellite network from 2009 to 2020, belongs to Planet Labs Germany in Berlin .
history
Planet Labs was founded in 2010 as Cosmogia by former NASA scientists Chris Boshuizen, Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler. The aim was to bring a large number of small and cheap earth observation satellites into space that would photograph or even film the earth's surface across the board and as daily as possible.
The company developed the Dove satellites , which were launched in 2013. From 2014 Planet Labs used it to build the “ Flock ” satellite constellation . In February 2014, Flock satellites were brought into orbit for the first time during ISS Expedition 38 .
In February 2017 sold Google LLC , the company Terra Bella at Planet Labs.
Planet Labs claims to have launched more than 400 satellites into space on 25 flights by the end of 2019, of which more than 200 were still in operation at the time. Only 387 satellites are known individually , which should be launched into space with 24 launches by the end of 2019. 34 of them did not reach space because the respective rocket exploded. Another 10 briefly went into space, but were not put into orbit due to technical problems. Of the 343 successfully launched satellites, 233 were still in Earth orbit at the end of 2019 , according to data from US space surveillance.
Individual evidence
- ^ RapidEye constellation retirement . Press release in ESA's eoPortal, January 24, 2020.
- ↑ Historic RapidEye Constellation Captures Last Light . Planet Labs, April 2, 2020.
- ↑ Tobias Reuter: Terra Bella: Google sells satellite image division . In: ComputerBase . February 2, 2020 ( computerbase.de ).
- ↑ https://www.planet.com/pulse/2019-dispatch-planets-year-in-review/ , accessed on March 8, 2020
- ↑ Space-Track.Org, accessed on March 8, 2020.