<p><span class="bw-dateline-wrapper"><strong>SAN FRANCISCO</strong> &#8212; </span>Planet Labs PBC, a provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has signed a multi-year $230 million agreement to expand its partnership with a long-standing, Asia-Pacific commercial partner.</p>
<p>The agreement calls for Planet to build and deliver a constellation of new Pelican high resolution satellites, securing certain capacity on the satellites for the partner, in addition to providing operational services. Planet will leverage the increased capacity of the expanded fleet to serve its own government and commercial customers around the world</p>
<p>“This agreement represents a significant milestone for Planet, it is our largest contract to date, and is a major step forward in what we see as a very large market opportunity for satellite services,” said Will Marshall, Planet’s CEO and Co-founder. “These types of partnerships are a win-win: our partners gain critical satellite capabilities and priority access to leading-edge technology, while they help Planet accelerate key space programs and create synergistic benefits for all our customers. We are strategically pursuing a select number of similar opportunities, spanning our Pelican, Tanager and SuperDove satellites across the defense and intelligence, civil government, and commercial sectors.”</p>
<p>“Today’s announcement builds on Planet’s ability to leverage its advanced space systems capabilities and IP to create unique value for partners,” said James Mason, Planet’s Chief Space Officer. “Our trusted partners have long expressed interest in our proprietary space systems technology and we’re proud to be able to fulfill their needs with our satellites and services. Our vertical integration and agile aerospace capabilities enable us to scale to customer and partner demand.”</p>
<p>Planet expects to recognize the $230 million of commercial payments from the partner as revenue over the build and operational service period of the satellites, which is estimated to be approximately seven years.</p>
<p>This is the third strategic space systems partnership Planet has signed in the last four years. In partnership with the Carbon Mapper Coalition, Planet has built, launched and deployed Tanager, a first-of-its-kind hyperspectral satellite, which is now producing a powerful dataset for use by customers and partners across government and commercial markets. In support of NASA’s Communications Services Project (CSP), Planet is developing real-time space-to-space connectivity solutions between Pelican and partner satellites with technology demonstrations onboard Planet’s Smallsat platform in 2025.</p>

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