Planet (fleet) / eo constellation
sourcing8 factsPlanet was founded with the mission to image the Earth every day and make change visible, accessible, and actionable. The company designs, builds, and operates satellite constellations that deliver detailed, high-frequency data used by governments, companies, and researchers to track daily changes at a global scale. Planet says it has built and successfully deployed 450 satellites and currently operates over 200 in orbit.
constellations
stock
NYSE: PL (source, as of 2026-07-05)
positioning
Planet's real product is time: an archive back to 2009 and a near-daily scan of the whole landmass since 2017 that no amount of rival capex can backfill. The soft spot is sharpness: 3 m daily pixels cede the high-detail tasking market, and SkySat plus the 30 cm Pelican line are the admission.
faq
Who operates Planet (fleet)?
Planet (fleet) is operated by Planet. (source, as of 2026-07-05)
facts
sats active (verified) counts objects currently tracked in CelesTrak's catalog for this constellation. It is a tracking count, not an operator claim about satellite health. Rows marked computed are the sum of the sub-constellations listed below; each sub-constellation page carries its own sourced figure.
orbit
events
- noise2026-07-07Planet launches Pelican-11 tech demo satellite on Transporter-17
- notable2026-07-06Planet Labs adds Wolfgang Schmidt, ex-German Chancellery head, to European board
- notable2026-07-02Isar Aerospace to launch Planet's first German-built satellite mission
- noise2026-06-05Planet Labs sets up $1.5 billion at-the-market equity offering program
timeline
- 20242024-08-16Planet launches Tanager-1, its first hyperspectral satellite (source, as of 2026-07-05)
- 20232023-08-14Planet acquires Sinergise, expanding its Earth Data Platform (source, as of 2026-07-05)
- 20212021-12-08Planet Labs PBC begins trading on NYSE under ticker PL after SPAC merger (source, as of 2026-07-05)
- 20172017-02-03Planet to acquire Terra Bella and its SkySat constellation from Google (source, as of 2026-07-05)
- 20152015Planet acquires BlackBridge and its RapidEye constellation (source, as of 2026-07-05)
- 20142014-01-09Planet's Flock-1 constellation launches aboard Antares to the ISS (source, as of 2026-07-05)