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Planet Labs Awarded NASA Evaluation Task Order

Planet Labs PBC has been awarded an evaluation task order under NASA's Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition, CSDA, program. Under the agreement, NASA will evaluate Planet's high-resolution Tanager hyperspectral dataset to assess its quality, reliability, and utility for supporting the agency's Earth science goals.

SES Space & Defense Launches Demonstration Payload on Planet Labs Satellite

SES Space & Defense launched a demonstration payload aboard Planet Labs PBC's Pelican-12 satellite, in support of NASA's Communications Services Project. The launch took place today, October 20, 2026, at 7:04 a.m. ET aboard the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission with SpaceX from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA announced it will gradually sunset its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite fleet and acquire commercial space relay services for future science missions in low Earth orbit. In 2022, NASA's Space Communications and Navigation division awarded $278.5M to industry through the Communications Services Project to fund development and demonstration of space relay services. SES Space & Defense has demonstrated LEO Relay Service on both geosynchronous and O3b mPOWER medium Earth orbit data relay systems on orbit to provide low and high data rate services for mission backhaul and spacecraft state of health. The demonstration will continue to expand commercial service capability with the use of the Pelican satellite.

Planet Labs Successfully Launches Pelican-12 Satellite

Planet Labs announced the successful launch of Pelican-12, an updated second generation high resolution Pelican satellite. Pelican-12 was launched to orbit aboard the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission with SpaceX from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Planet has successfully made initial contact with the satellite and has begun the process to commission the satellite and lower its orbital altitude. This successful mission marks Planet's 25th satellite sent to orbit in 2026, across four launches.