Planet Labs Inc. (“Planet”) designs, builds, and operates the world’s largest fleet of remote sensing satellites and sells the imagery data and derived products to a wide variety of government, commercial, academic, and nonprofit customers. Planet utilizes an Agile Aerospace approach to take advantage of improvements in commercial-off-the-shelf technologies, increased access to launch opportunities for small satellites, and readily scalable cloud-based IT infrastructure. This chapter describes the development of the Flock constellation, Planet’s medium resolution fleet comprised of Dove satellites, and the surrounding infrastructure required to operate this innovative system.
Planet’s Dove Satellite Constellation
Handbook of Small Satellites ; Kapitel : 64 ; 1057-1073
13.09.2020
17 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Venture capital funding , Satellite imagery , Remote sensing , Dove , Flock , NewSpace , Planet , Smallsat , Constellation , Piggyback launch , Satellite , Cubesat , Cosmogia , GIS , Earth Observation , Commercial-off-the-shelf Physics and Astronomy , Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Monitoring/Environmental Analysis , Communications Engineering, Networks , Physics
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