First Contact for Planet Flock 3P of 88 Doves just launched by the Indian PSLV

Each “Dove” satellite tweets “Yo” as it spin stabilizes and contacts a ground station. You can also see a full-size Dove bottom right. This was the Valentine’s Day party at Planet HQ last night. (more 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