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Planet Labs Germany will fly a Pelican imaging satellite on Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket within a year — a milestone all-German mission riding on a launcher that has yet to reach orbit.
Read the story →NASA expanded its Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program with 8 new vendors and 6 returning ones, pushing the contract ceiling to $476M through 2028.
Planet Labs operates the largest commercial Earth observation constellation in history — over 200 Dove cubesats producing daily global coverage. The dense time series enables monitoring of agriculture, deforestation, urban growth, and disaster response at scales and cadences previously impossible.
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