Planet to Launch Its First Hyperspectral Satellite, Tanager-1, and 36 SuperDoves with SpaceX

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), a leading provider of daily Earth data and insights, announced that its first hyperspectral satellite, Tanager-1, along with 36 SuperDoves (Flock 4BE) will launch on the Transporter-11 Rideshare mission with SpaceX on Friday, August 16, 2024 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SpaceX’s launch window opens at 11:20 a.m. PT, and the live launch webcast can be viewed at this link.

Tanager-1 will expand Planet’s capabilities by adding more than 400 spectral bands of data, capturing phenomena that are invisible to the human eye. Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition, a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy industry-leading hyperspectral satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity that can support direct mitigation action. Tanager-1 combines Planet’s cutting-edge agile aerospace and smallsat bus technology with the state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer design developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Tanager’s hyperspectral data will also be commercially available to Planet customers for a variety of additional applications, including defense and intelligence monitoring, biodiversity assessments, mineral mapping, and water quality assessments.

In addition to Tanager-1, Planet will launch 36 SuperDoves (Flock 4BE) that will contribute to Planet’s flagship daily, global monitoring mission. PlanetScope data is used by hundreds of customers in defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial markets to take informed action, and better contextualize events on the ground today.