Business Description
Planet Labs PBC builds, launches, and operates fleets of satellites that photograph the entire Earth every single day, selling access to that imagery through an online platform to customers around the world. Its satellites range from compact daily-imaging units capable of capturing detail as fine as 3.5 meters on the ground, to high-resolution craft that can photograph the same spot multiple times a day at 50-centimeter clarity, to specialized sensors that detect gases like methane across the full light spectrum. Customers in farming, energy, finance, forestry, government, and other fields use the company's tools to pull insights from this data through standard mapping software or custom-built applications. Founded in San Francisco in 2010, the company also designs and builds satellites for outside clients and manages the full lifecycle of those missions on their behalf.
