The only thing cooler than a tiny, cheap satellite is a fleet of tiny, cheap satellites. Or so figure three former NASA scientists who have just unveiled their new company, called Planet Labs.

Planet Labs founders created a way to quickly build imaging satellites from low-cost PCs running the Ubuntu Linux operating system. The satellites are being used to take an unprecedented number of ...

A Bay Area firm that makes low-cost satellites the size of shoe boxes is planning to increase the fleet of orbiting devices in order to take new images of the entire Earth every day.

With over 200 Earth observation satellites, Planet Labs now operates the largest satellite constellation in history. ... Each Dove contains an optical imagery system called a PlanetScope.

Planet Labs Wednesday announced a new $230 million multi-year partnership extension with an unidentified Asian-Pacfic commercial partner to build new Pelican high-resolution satellites.

San Francisco-based Planet Labs has announced plans to deploy a global constellation consisting of 32 Earth-observing satellites. Called Pelican, the fleet will monitor such things as political ...

Designed, built, and operated by San Francisco-based Planet Labs, the micro-satellite (aka “CubeSats”) system consists of 28 12- x 4- x 4-inch-tall imaging satellites, individually known as ...

In addition to its satellite constellation, Planet Labs has 16 ground station network sites, ... Salo has built a forest monitoring system that uses AI and multi-sensor Earth observation data.

A dramatic fall in rocket-launch costs is propelling Planet Labs to expand its constellation of imaging satellites, which will soon be able to photograph a 50cm strip of earth as often as 12 times ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a satellite imaging company with a market capitalization of $1.65 billion, has secured a new seven-figure contract with NATO to provide daily monitoring ...

Earth observation satellite operator Planet Labs (NYSE: PL) soared 8% in a single day last month, after announcing a "six-figure deal" to help non-governmental organization (NGO) Global Fishing ...