Tag: Planet Labs
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Planet opens office in Seattle area to work on data platform for satellite imagery
Karthik Govindhasamy, Planet’s chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering, shows off a mural that depicts Dove satellites being deployed from the International Space Station. The mural graces the reception area of Planet’s Bellevue office. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) BELLEVUE, Wash. – Planet has landed … in the Seattle area. The upstart…
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NASA: Tracking CubeSats is easy, but many stay in orbit too long
Two shoebox-sized Planet Labs satellites deploy from a dispenser aboard the International Space Station in this image from August 2014. Credit: NASA U.S. military radars have little trouble tracking the flux of CubeSats filling orbital traffic lanes, diminishing worries that new commercial CubeSat constellations could generate collision hazards in space, according to a report issued…