Planet Labs built the largest Earth-imaging satellite fleet

Planet Labs operates the world’s largest Earth-imaging satellite fleet, producing more than 3 terabytes per day of high-resolution images that alert government agencies, researchers, media, and others to potential environmental disasters and global security risks. Unlike traditionally slow and rigid aerospace development cycles, the company harnesses a design and development process it calls “Agile Aerospace.” Planet Labs’ latest satellite system, called Pelican, is one exam...