{"id":56973,"date":"2021-08-05T23:28:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planet-signs-long-term-multiple-rideshare-launch-deal-with-spacex\/"},"modified":"2021-08-05T23:28:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:28:25","slug":"planet-signs-long-term-multiple-rideshare-launch-deal-with-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planet-signs-long-term-multiple-rideshare-launch-deal-with-spacex\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Signs Long-Term, Multiple Rideshare Launch Deal with SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Earth imagery satellite operator <strong>Planet<\/strong> signed a multi-year launch agreement with <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> that includes multiple rideshare launches on the Falcon 9 rocket through the end of 2025, the companies announced Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Planet\u2019s first launch under this agreement will take place in December, with SpaceX\u2019s \u201cFlock 4x, 44 SuperDoves\u201d Falcon 9 Transporter-3 SSO rideshare mission. The operator said that future missions would include both its SuperDoves and Carbon Mapper satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the demand for Planet\u2019s services continues to soar, SpaceX\u2019s regular launch cadence will allow Planet\u2019s customers to use its services with as little downtime after manufacturing as possible,\u201d said SpaceX vice president of Commercial Sales Tom Ochinero.<\/p>\n<p>Planet operates the world\u2019s largest Earth Observation (EO) satellite constellation to date, with 200 satellites in orbit. The company has launched 83 satellites with SpaceX on seven separate launch missions.<\/p>\n<p>The launch deal with SpaceX comes two months after Planet signed a multi-launch contract with <strong>Astra<\/strong> \u2014 the new entrant launch company\u2019s first commercial contract \u2014 though that agreement did not specify how many missions it included or when launches would commence.<\/p>\n<p>Planet alluded to this and other launch obligations in its contract announcement with SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond SpaceX, Planet maintains a diversified launch manifest to mitigate risks inherent to the launch industry. Moving forward, Planet will continue to operate with a variety of launch providers to ensure that launch needs can still be met in the event of unavailabilities [sic] of specific providers. By engaging with a diversified manifest, Planet can find launches to the right orbit in the right time frame for each evolving satellite project,\u201d Planet said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Planet announced its intent to transform into a publicly traded company through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), <strong>dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV<\/strong>&nbsp;in a deal that values the company at $2.8 billion.&nbsp;The transaction is expected to bring $435 million in net proceeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth imagery satellite operator Planet signed a multi-year launch agreement with SpaceX that includes multiple rideshare launches on the Falcon 9 rocket through the end of 2025, the companies announced Thursday morning. Planet\u2019s first launch under this agreement will take place in December, with SpaceX\u2019s \u201cFlock 4x, 44 SuperDoves\u201d Falcon 9 Transporter-3 SSO rideshare mission. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}