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At 597 feet, India’s Statue of Unity is now the tallest statue in the world and clearly seen from space! Oblique SkySat image captured today, November 15, 2018.

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These images compare Kahramanmaras, Turkey before and after the earthquakes. You can see the 12 Subat Stadium filled w/ tents to support #disasterresponse . Our #satelliteimagery of the #TurkeyEarthquake is free and available to response teams. 📸 (2): SkySat • 2/9/23

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Before and after SkySat imagery shows the impact of yesterday’s explosion in Beirut. Imagery captured on May 31, 2020 and today, August 5, 2020.

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It's been reported that an estimated 195,000 trees have been cut down for a mining project in western Turkey. This timelapse of Planet satellite imagery from April 2019 - July 2019 shows the dramatic impact to the mountainous region.

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A Planet SkySat captured an image of Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai today at 2:25 UTC, just two hours before its violent eruption that triggered a tsunami. Read @tanyaofmars ' latest blog for more details on our monitoring of the volcano:

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A stunning end to this historic year. A Planet SkySat captured the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn - the closest night sky pass of the two planets in nearly 800 years. And on that note, we’re out! Happy holidays from the Planet team.

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This has been a long time coming - excited to announce we have achieved Mission 1: to image the entire Earth’s landmass every day!

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This pair of PlanetScope images, captured just one day apart on October 7 and 8, 2022, shows the damaged Kerch Strait Bridge following a major explosion today. This is the only bridge that connects the Crimean peninsula with the Russian mainland.

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One of the coolest things a Dove cubesat has captured—watch the Soyuz loft our 48 Flock 2k satellites into space.

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Latest from Chuhuiv Airbase in Ukraine. Imagery captured on February 21 and today, February 24, 2022.

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After days of ☁️ with a chance of ❄️ one of Planet’s high-resolution SkySats captured a glimpse of Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano. Imagery including near-infrared light (second image) highlights the path of the molten lava.

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Earth is incredible. And it’s changing fast. 🌎 So come join the Snapshots community. No frills, no fuss, just compelling stories & beautiful imagery that’ll transform your understanding of the planet every week, one snap at a time. Sign up now:

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The *amazing* #Rosetta flickr gallery http://t.co/00ezcbky10

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Launch day is nearly here for SkySats 16-18! The sats will be hitching a ride on @SpaceX 's Falcon 9 on June 13 - their 1st Starlink Rideshare Program launch. Check out our blog for info on these SkySats and how they’ll compliment our 15 already in orbit.

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As the clouds clear, ashfall from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano is visible on Tongatapu. Captured by a Planet SkySat.

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A Planet SkySat captured @SpaceX 's Starship SN9 resting on the pad in Boca Chica just hours before yesterday's test launch. More details in our gallery post:

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We've confirmed Dove Pioneer is successfully in orbit! More soon.

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A Planet SkySat captured video of @SpaceX 's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas on August 8, 2021. Last week at this facility, the SpaceX team stacked Starship SN20 onto its Super Heavy booster. Together, they stood 395 feet tall 🤯

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Live long and prosper.🖖 That’s the dream, right? @RoddenberryFdn 's Rod Roddenberry gets the scoop from our VP of Launch Mike Safyan on how our sats are reaching the final frontier…of making the world a better place. Check it out:

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Planet SkySat imagery of the #KincadeFire captured at an extreme angle yesterday, October 27th.

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After several days erupting underwater, Japan's Fukutoku-Okanoba Volcano broke the surface in mid-August. This PlanetScope image shows the brand-new island and a swirling trail of pumice on August 15, 2021.

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Sad to see the tragic and deteriorating events in Ukraine. We have and will continue to provide imagery from the region to our partners, aid, relief and human rights organizations, and the media to expose the situation as events unfold. Our thoughts are with the people of 🇺🇦

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It’s almost time for SkySats 19-21 to join Planet’s constellation 🛰️ Following our previous successful SkySat launch, three more will fly on @SpaceX 's Falcon 9 rocket soon. Learn how these high-resolution sats will compliment our fleet already in orbit:

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The Cumbre Vieja Eruption in La Palma, Spain captured from the east by SkySat on October 4, 2021. Fun fact: Even if lava is not quite hot enough to glow brightly in visible light, it will still glow in longer & lower energy wavelengths such as near infrared (seen on the right)."

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@SpaceX And at an oblique angle just for fun :)

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Today is the @UN 's International Day of Human Spaceflight, where we honor space accomplishments past and present. It's also the day that Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel to outer space in 1961! How will you celebrate this historic occasion?

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And just for fun - a Planet SkySat captured video today of @SpaceX 's Falcon 9 first stage booster back on the ground after its 10th trip to space!

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We believe we've only scratched the surface of what's possible with our data. 🚀 @Planet 's North Star for the next decade is to build an #earthdata platform that empowers action for govts, businesses and leaders around the world.

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Today, Planeteers excitedly watched the successful launch of SkySats 16-18 aboard @SpaceX 's Falcon 9 rocket. Cheers were loud. Celebratory pancakes were eaten over Zoom. All in all, a great start to the weekend! More details in our blog:

SkySats 16-18 Successfully Launch Aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9...

Planet | SkySats 16-18 Successfully Launch Aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9

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All three @planetlabs SkySats have deployed

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Over the course of this spring and summer, we'll be launching six SkySats into space aboard @SpaceX 's Falcon 9, offering targeted coverage, unrivaled rapid revisits and raw image capacity in key regions.

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The Arecibo Observatory has been shut down after a structural cable failed, punching a 100-foot-long gash in the dish. Seen here, SkySat imagery of the damage captured on August 10, 2020.

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Planet's SkySat captured two images of the Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan today, August 16th, at 8:26 and 9:11 UTC - just 45 minutes apart. The imagery gives a near real-time look into the deteriorating situation.

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In a matter minutes, we successfully made contact with our 9 SuperDoves just launched on the Electron rocket 🚀Thanks for the lift, @RocketLab !

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A massive 400 meter-long container ship, Ever Given, is stuck in the #Suez Canal, blocking traffic in one of world’s busiest maritime trade routes. The ship can be seen in this Planet Dove satellite image captured yesterday, March 23rd.

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Thrilled to announce @carbonmapper - a program to build a hyperspectral satellite constellation to pinpoint & track methane and CO2 emissions. In partnership w/ @NASAJPL , @AirResources , @CAgovernor , @RockyMtnInst , @ASU , @uarizona & High Tide Foundation:

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Planet’s response to India’s testing of an anti-satellite missile.

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Successful deployment 👏Our mission ops team will now work to make contact with the three satellites. Updates to come!

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All three @planetlabs SkySats have deployed

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A Planet SkySat captured video of the ongoing efforts to dislodge the Ever Given from the Suez Canal after it ran aground late Tuesday, blocking all traffic. Video captured by SkySat on March 27, 2021.

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It's official! Our business transaction with $DMYQ successfully closed and tomorrow, we will begin trading on the @NYSE under the ticker $PL 🌍

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Launch success! 🚀🛰️💫 We've established contact with all 37 satellites launched today by @SpaceX . Learn more about our sats onboard:

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This is what it looks like when 88 #cubesats deploy from the side of a rocket into space. Fly free, @dovesinspace !

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Today, we're moving commercial aerospace forward with the next phase of high resolution imaging capabilities. Planet is excited to announce the availability of 50 cm imagery, our new Tasking Dashboard, and soon 12x/day imaging.

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Launch success! Our missions team has made contact with all three SkySats in record time - just 18 minutes after liftoff. Learn more in our post-launch blog: Thanks for the ride, @SpaceX !

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Good luck to the @NASA team as they prepare to launch their most powerful rocket yet that will send an unpiloted Orion crew capsule around the moon! SkySat video captured the launch vehicle on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on August 25, 2022. Ad astra 🚀🌕

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A Planet Dove satellite caught the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline rupture in the Baltic Sea, approximately 13 nautical miles southeast of Bornholm Island, Denmark. Captured yesterday, September 26, 2022.

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Here we go! Today, we will be listed on the @NYSE as a Public Benefit Corporation, furthering our mission to use space to help life on Earth. $PL

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The team that watches @Beyonce together stays together. #Lemonade lunch at Planet Labs SF. 🍋 🍋 🍋

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Let's just call it peak perfection! ⛰️ Our sats caught a rare glimpse of the world's tallest peaks. Catch Mount Everest in the back. #Himalayas #Offnadir

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Deployment ✅ All 44 SuperDoves have successfully deployed from @SpaceX ’s Falcon 9 and are off to join the rest of our ~200 satellites in orbit capturing a daily scan of our changing planet. Thanks for the ride, SpaceX!

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It's #ScienceWednesday ! Planet’s @tanyaofmars spoke with @nasa ’s Dan Slayback about the eruption on Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai. Using satellite data, including PlanetScope, he conducted a scientific analysis on the island’s dramatic expansion. 🌋 Read more:

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In unfortunate news, the #AreciboObservatory radio telescope will be decommissioned after sustaining catastrophic damage earlier this year that can be seen from space. Read more in @nature :

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These SkySat images capture water spilling over the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine. The dam cuts through Ukraine’s Dnipro River, holding back a huge reservoir of water. The dam’s failure poses a humanitarian and ecological catastrophe. 📸 (1): 6/4/2023 📸 (2): 6/6/2023

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Smoke billows from Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia after drone strikes set fire to the major oil facilities. Captured by a Planet Dove satellite today, September 14, 2019.

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Astronauts on the @Space_Station take the *best* #cubesat photos.

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Successful deployment of SkySats 19-21! Our mission ops team is now working to make contact with the three SkySats. Updates to come 🚀

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All three @planetlabs SkySats have deployed

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That is one Extremely Large Telescope! Our SkySats captured the construction of this aptly named telescope on Cerro Amazones, a mountaintop in the Chilean Atacama Desert, from February 1 to April 28, 2022. When completed, this will be the largest telescope ever created.

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Today, Planet announced its intention to go public via a merger with dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV. We are so proud of what we’ve accomplished over the last 10 years and are excited for what’s next. Read more about the business combination here:

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Liftoff! GO SuperDoves, GO @RocketLab !

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We have successful lift-off of Electron!

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Tiny telescopes in space are imaging enormous telescopes on Earth:

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Soon, five Planet SuperDoves will be hitching a ride on the Electron rocket for @RocketLab 's "Pics or It Didn't Happen" launch. Don't believe us? Don't worry. There will be pics. And it will happen.

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Thanks for stopping by our office today @rocketlab ! Good thing we had a model in the lab, a full-scale Electron rocket would be hard to hold in one hand 😉

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Don't even think about it, @KarlTheFog .

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Another launch under our belts! This marks 31 successful launches of over 500 sats since our founding 🤯 All 44 SuperDoves on today's @SpaceX launch have made contact and started moving through our automated commissioning process. Nice work, team!

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Happy to report that all of the 88 Doves are happy, healthy, and rotating in real-time!

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We're excited to announce that @NASA has expanded their contract with Planet after a successful pilot, making data available to the entire NASA-funded research community.

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The recent volcanic eruption on Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai caused the island to expand significantly (nearly 45%!) as seen in these two PlanetScope images captured on November 17, 2021 and January 3, 2022 🤯

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Dove #cubesats deploy into Low Earth Orbit from the @Space_Station .

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A SkySat image of Hoover Dam taken on June 21st shows Lake Mead’s decreasing surface level. The reservoir reached its lowest point since it was filled in the late 1930s as the West’s historic drought further strains water resources. More in our gallery:

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An ash cloud almost completely obscures the island of Saint Vincent after La Soufrière Volcano erupted explosively on the morning of April 9, 2021. Image captured at 10:13 a.m. local time.

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A Dove satellite captured the devastating oil spill in Norilsk, Russia today, June 4, 2020.

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How it started: How it’s going:

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New post-eruption SkySat imagery of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai is here. Captured today, January 18, 2022 🌋

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St. Peter’s Basilica and the surrounding city of Rome was blanketed in snow this morning - for the first time in six years! Captured by SkySat on February 26, 2018.

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A cargo ship departing the Port of Baltimore struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning. SkySat images from November 3, 2023 and March 26, 2024 show the bridge before and after its collapse.

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Our first launch of 2022 is here! 44 SuperDoves are set to launch on @SpaceX ’s Transporter-3 mission tomorrow at 7:25am PT / 10:25am ET. These sats will join our operational fleet of ~200 🛰️ in orbit delivering daily data to our customers. More details:

Planet to Launch 44 SuperDove Satellites on SpaceX’s Falco...

Planet | Planet to Launch 44 SuperDove Satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket

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Targeting launch of SpaceX’s third dedicated smallsat rideshare mission, Transporter-3, tomorrow, January 13. The 29-minute launch window opens at 10:25 a.m. EST →

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When it rains, it pours. 💦 California was drenched for two weeks straight, when an #atmosphericriver dropped an estimated 24.5tn gallons of water. Read more about the record-breaking flooding in this week's Snapshots:

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Planet Dove satellite imagery captured today shows progress coming from the Suez Canal as the Ever Given begins to shift away from the shoreline.

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The National Mall is adorned with a 'Field of Flags' for today's 59th Presidential Inauguration. The installation of nearly 200,000 flags representing those who cannot be in attendance were captured by SkySat earlier this week. #Inauguration2021

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To encourage innovation in radio communication, Planet is releasing OpenLST, an open radio solution for communicating with remote instruments, vehicles, and stations using low-cost commercial components. Get started with OpenLST today:

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Over 200,000 people gathered on an English dairy farm this June to celebrate Glastonbury Festival. Watch as the farm goes from preparation to full swing @glastonbury . PlanetScope • Pilton, Somerset, England • May 27, June 15, June 22, and July 11, 2022

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Big day. The PSLV rocket has successfully lofted 88 Doves into Low Earth Orbit. Read the post-launch report:

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After a series of explosions spread ash at least 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) over the Atlantic Ocean, Saint Vincent's #LaSoufriere Volcano slowed long enough for a Planet SkySat to capture this movie. The video shows a plume of ash and water vapor rising above the volcano today.

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WARNING: Drooling may occur after looking at these stunning off-angle shots of Earth's wonders 🤯

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Planet’s SuperDoves have successfully been deployed from @SpaceX 's Falcon 9! Our Mission Ops team will now work to establish contact with the first set of 40 sats. The remaining 8 will be deployed from @D_Orbit 's ION platform over the coming weeks.

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This false color SkySat image captured lava snaking through La Palma after the recent Cumbre Vieja Volcano eruption.

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Our first launch of 2021 is nearly here 🚀 48 SuperDoves are set to launch with @SpaceX *tomorrow morning* from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida! Get ready, the launch window opens at 6:24 am PT / 9:24am ET / 14:24 UTC:

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Today, we unveiled details about Pelican, our next-gen high-resolution satellite constellation. With increased resolution, reduced latency, and more revisit rates than ever before, this constellation can help capture changing events as they unfold.

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Looks pretty great from up here too! 🚀

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Here comes the Sun 🚀🌅 Take a look at this view of the #Artemis I @NASA_SLS rocket and @NASA_Orion spacecraft on Launch Complex 39B during sunrise on March 24. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky More photos:

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A land of fire and ice. Yesterday, Planet satellites captured this striking false color image of lava flow in Grindavik, Iceland.

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All 88 have deployed! We apologize in advance to followers of @dovesinspace —your feed is about to get *very* busy. 🕊️ x 88

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We're gearing up to launch with @RocketLab in October! 9 SuperDoves, Flock 4e’, are set to hitch a ride on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket and will join the rest of our fleet providing unprecedented global coverage and revisit. Stay tuned for updates.

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We’re partnering with @Google to make high-resolution @Climateforest #tropicalforest Basemaps available on Google Earth Engine! This will further enable the NICFI Satellite Data Program to operate scalable impact initiatives for tropical forest loss. More:

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In the wake of Hurricane Ian, water flowed from Charlotte Harbor and Gasparilla Sound into the Gulf of Mexico. The dark fresh water contrasted sharply with the water of the Gulf, which had been stirred up by the passing hurricane. Captured by PlanetScope on September 30, 2022.

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Hey, @KarlTheFog : you look pretty good from space.

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Liftoff of @SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying 3 Planet SkySats!

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Planet's view of Launch Complex-1 as @RocketLab readies for today’s #StillTesting launch attempt with our Dove Pioneer aboard. Follow @RocketLab for updates.

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Planet's Dove satellites captured the severe cold that gripped Texas and the central United States this week. Seen here is Austin, TX on February 7th and yesterday, February 16th. Stay safe everyone!

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