The NATO Communications and Information Agency has awarded Planet Labs a contract to access its SkySat satellite data.
The San Francisco, California-based company will supply the data to the Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space program supporting NATO missions.
According to a Planet statement issued on Monday, the imagery that the company will provide will enable detailed NATO monitoring and analysis of foreign military infrastructure, capabilities and activities. It said its data will support threat assessment, fill intelligence gaps and help bring a common operating scenario among NATO allies.
Will Marshall, Planet co-founder and CEO, conveyed the company’s eagerness to work with the APSS team to advance global security through new space technology. “In a time of heightened global conflict, this ability to supply NATO is more critical than ever to reinforce multinational alliances and advance peace around the world through transparency and accountability from space,” he said.
Planet, established by three NASA scientists in 2010, sent into orbit in January 2022 a new fleet of 44 satellites, bringing its Earth observation spacecraft to 240. The satellites capture images covering 135.1 million square miles of land per day with a resolution of 3 meters per pixel.