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With CEO Will Marshall pouring the bubbly at Planet HQ as the stoic Indian space organization keeps it all nominal overhead. Planet co-founder Robbie Schingler also piped in on the live feed from Sriharikota, India (photos below).
Five years in the making, and with a record 144 satellites in orbit now, Planet can do something unprecedented… capture a 50-trillion-pixel image of the entire Earth, every day. With this data set, developers can do automated analysis (e.g., global crop health), change detection (e.g., daily tree count or industrial activity) and similarity search (e.g., daily housing starts). It is exciting to think about what’s to come.
Planet blog post and ISRO launch video highlight reel, with Dove deploy
Heading to the South Pole… a polar orbit: 
Contacting the flock of Doves, and a full-size Dove bottom right, 
No better way to spend Valentine’s Day! 
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