Mapping the world – Planet Launches First Tanager-1 and 36 SuperDoves with SpaceX

We speak with Seyed Miri, Regional Business Lead for ANZ & Pacific Islands with Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), a leading provider of daily Earth data and insights.

The company’s first hyperspectral satellite, Tanager-1, along with 36 SuperDoves (Flock 4BE) were successfully launched into orbit during the Transporter-11 Rideshare mission with SpaceX, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday, August 16, 2024. The Planet team has successfully made contact with Tanager-1 and started its commissioning process.

Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition , a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. Tanager-1 combines Planet’s cutting-edge agile aerospace and smallsat bus technology with the state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer design developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

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