Planet Labs flock release
Planet began sending its first "flock" of Doves from the International Space Station in 2014. Now, the company operates the world's largest constellation of Earth observation satellites.

NASA is ready to move ahead with plans to purchase Earth science data from commercial smallsat companies as it weighs the balance of large and small satellite systems to meet its research needs.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...