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Twitch is heading to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) next week! We couldn’t be more excited to join the many…
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Katie Penn shared this❤️👀Katie Penn shared thisInto the great… known. 🌎🛰️ With near-daily global scan and more than a decade of imagery, we’re helping our customers spot what’s happening, recognize patterns, and close the gap between seeing a problem and doing something about it. If your daily commute in D.C. takes you through the Pentagon Metro station, you’ve probably seen Planet in action. Can’t make it by? Here are a few highlights.👇 planet.com
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Katie Penn shared thisTurning unknowns into known knowns. The best brand campaigns don't lead with the technology. They lead with what it makes possible. For our customers, that means spotting the pattern before it becomes the problem. A decade of daily imagery of the entire planet gives us something rare: the context to see what's changing and why. That's the thinking behind our latest work, and the start of an exciting new chapter for Planet marketing. Proud of the team behind it. #BrandStrategy #Marketing #NationalSecurity
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Katie Penn reposted thisKatie Penn reposted thisLeaders across defense, government, agriculture, and climate response gathered at Church House Westminster for our Planet UK Conference 2026. ➡️ The focus: how Planetary Intelligence delivers trusted insights to safeguard security, sustainability, and prosperity. Attendees connected with policymakers, senior government leaders, and NGOs to see how space-based data and AI address real-world challenges—from defense monitoring to disaster response. Key contributors included speakers from the Scottish and Welsh governments, the Open Source Centre, Space4Climate The HALO Trust, and the National Centre for Earth Observation.
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Katie Penn shared thisDid you know that these are my amazing colleagues? Building our satellites in our office(s - soon to be 2!) IS remarkable and what makes Planet a pioneer in agile aerospace. 🚀Katie Penn shared thisOur next launch is just days away! 🚀 Next Monday, we’ll be launching Pelican-12, an updated second generation high resolution Pelican, aboard SpaceX's Bandwagon-5. Pelican-12 carries the NVIDIA Jetson platform to enable on-orbit edge compute. This powers capabilities like AI-driven, near real-time object detection and helps us explore new ways to reduce latency and build towards planetary-scale Earth intelligence. 🛰️ Launch window opens at 3:30am PT / 6:30am ET: https://lnkd.in/g5Qyeyhn
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Katie Penn reposted thisKatie Penn reposted thisWere looking for volunteer career mentors to support first-generation college seniors as they prepare to launch their careers! 🎓Know someone who might be a great fit? Please share this opportunity with your network or refer them our way! Were seeking professionals across a wide range of industries. The commitment is three virtual calls over the next six months if you are matched with a student. Interested? Fill out our short form: https://lnkd.in/e-s6zd72
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Katie Penn shared thisBig launch day PlanetKatie Penn shared thisMission success! All 20 payloads were successfully launched. We’ve already made contact with Google's Project Suncatcher, Tanager-2 & two SuperDoves – and all are healthy! The remaining SuperDoves await deployment thru D-Orbit (as expected)! 🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️ Thanks to Google and Carbon Mapper for teaming together, and to SpaceX for the ride up! With this mission, we’ve now launched 718 satellites on 43 rockets. This was the first time we’ve had three different satellite types flying together! + we have another launch in a few weeks from Cape Canaveral. 🚀 https://lnkd.in/eeKfmDcP
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Katie Penn reposted thisKatie Penn reposted this„Raumfahrt ist längst keine Nische mehr. Sie ist das Zugpferd, was unterschiedlichste technologische Bereiche zusammen voranbringt.“ ➡️ Bei der Eröffnung der neuen Satellitenproduktionsstätte von Planet Labs in Berlin machte Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche deutlich: Deutschland und insbesondere Berlin bringen beste Voraussetzungen mit, um beim Wachstum des #Space-Ökosystems eine wichtige Rolle zu spielen. Denn Space ist ein neuer Operationsraum und verbindet Präzisionsfertigung, Optik, Sensorik, Elektronik, Software und künstliche Intelligenz. Dafür haben wir in Deutschland Talent, Kapital, starke Forschungseinrichtungen und die öffentliche Hand als Nachfrager – und wir haben Investitionsbedingungen, die Wachstum möglich machen. Jetzt kommt es darauf an, Unternehmen, Start-ups und industrielle Partner zusammenzubringen und ein wachsendes Space Ecosystem aufzubauen. Unser Anspruch muss sein, aus diesen Stärken wirtschaftlichen Erfolg zu machen. „Technologien skalieren ist heute das Gebot der Stunde. Deshalb sind wir dankbar, dass Planet Labs sich entschlossen hat, Produktionskapazität in signifikantem Umfang hier auszubauen. Und wir müssen dafür sorgen, dass innovative Anbieter in Deutschland und Europa verlässliche Märkte und gute Wachstumsbedingungen haben“, betonte Ministerin Reiche in Ihrer Rede. Mit dem Ausbau seiner Produktionskapazitäten in Berlin leistet Planet Labs dazu einen wichtigen Beitrag. Planet Labs betreibt Satelliten zur Beobachtung der Erde und stellt die daraus gewonnenen Geodaten Unternehmen, Regierungen und Forschungseinrichtungen zur Verfügung.
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Katie Penn shared thisExciting week in our investment and commitment to Europe - we’ve officially opened our new satellite manufacturing facility in Berlin!. Planet's a category leader in agile aerospace. The 5,700-square-meter facility will serve as a cornerstone of Planet's contributions to European technological advancement in space, addressing the region's growing demand for localized, resilient aerospace innovation and defense solutions. Berlin has been Planet’s base in Europe for over 10 years and is just getting started!Katie Penn shared thisWe’ve opened our new satellite manufacturing facility in Berlin! The first Pelican satellite is scheduled to be complete before the end of the 2026 and the facility will be able to scale up to 60 satellites per year. 🛰️🇩🇪 The facility further establishes Berlin as a major European hub for advanced aerospace manufacturing and production, accelerating high-tech job growth and Europe’s sovereign Earth observation capabilities. Read the full release here: https://lnkd.in/d9RKmE43 BEOS AG, Berlin Decks
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Katie Penn shared thisWe are excited to be in partnerships with Google on Project Suncatcher. "Every moonshot starts with a milestone like this." - indeed! 🚀 🛰️Katie Penn shared thisInspired by our history of moonshots, from quantum computing to autonomous driving, Project Suncatcher is exploring how we could one day build scalable ML compute systems in space. In low-Earth orbit, satellites can access near-constant sunlight, generating up to 8x more solar power than on Earth. Eventually, linked constellations of satellites could handle significant AI workloads while in orbit. Turning that vision into reality starts with a fundamental question: Can our AI hardware actually survive and operate in space? After years of research, Project Suncatcher is scheduled to embark on its first test in orbit. Built in partnership with Planet, we’re launching a prototype satellite aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX to test the performance of our TPUs in space. From the intense vibration and g-forces of launch, to radiation exposure, to the unique challenges of cooling chips in a vacuum, it’s safe to say there’s a lot that can go wrong! It reminds me of seeing the first Waymo leave the parking lot in Mountain View, or visiting our Quantum lab to see our early quantum chips cool down to near absolute zero. Every moonshot starts with a milestone like this. Check out our new four-part video series detailing the science and engineering hurdles the team overcame to get to this moment: https://lnkd.in/gWVSeeqa
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Katie Penn reacted on thisKatie Penn reacted on thisA great conversation about Germany’s growing role in the space industry at Silicon Valley Space Week #SVSW this week, and what it takes to build a strong, sustainable space ecosystem for Europe. At Planet, we’re excited to be expanding our presence in Germany and building Pelican satellites in Berlin. Europe’s investment in its own space capabilities is creating real opportunities for the industry. Thanks for the discussion Rainer Müller, Florian Max Schwandner, and Dennis Wilkens. I’m looking forward to seeing how this momentum continues. #SVSW P.S. This event took place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA where we happen to have a two-story tall Planet image of Silicon Valley! See below.
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Katie Penn liked thisSuper proud of the Planet team and our partnership with Google on the first "Hello World" of TPUs in space. And in a classicly fun Google fashion, a haiku was sent back to Earth: "Blue marble below Data streams in silent grace Starlight feeds my core. ✨" And yes, I did try to encourage the Google team to call this first quest a "Hello Planet" moment. :)Katie Penn liked this"Hello, world" from Project Suncatcher… On Oct 1 I posted about the launch of our prototype satellite with several of our GoogleTPUs as part of our research moonshot Project Suncatcher. A couple of days ago, we uplinked our first prompt to our onboard Gemma 4 open model during a ground-station pass, asking it to generate a haiku about being in space. As our Suncatcher prototype satellite passed by Norway, the downlinked generated poem confirmed success. Here's the haiku: Blue marble below Data streams in silent grace Starlight feeds my core. ✨ This generation was something of a “Hello, world” moment for us – our first ever TPU-generated AI response from space, 500 kilometers above the Earth, all powered by the sun. We also ran a few other generations and had the model update us on its state and provide telemetry information etc. As excited as we were to see this work (and all the engineering, problem-solving and innovations involved, along with the rigors and complications of space), it’s just the first of many milestones still to come as part of our Project Suncatcher research moonshot. There are many more engineering and science problems to solve, many unknowns, so much to learn, and more research innovation still to come. As we stated at the outset, we are building on what we’ve learned with other moonshots like Waymo and Quantum. We’re taking a rigorous, evidence-first and milestone-driven approach that will unfold over many years, as we explore the future long-term potential to harness the sun, the most powerful source of energy in our system, more directly for AI compute needed to enable useful applications here on earth and for people everywhere, far into the future. For now, this first small step and "Hello, world" moment was exciting - but there so much more still to do in the coming years. Below is our experience of the moment as we had our first interactions with our TPUs and Gemma model in space. Congratulations to my colleagues Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Travis Beals, Maria Apezteguia Biggs, Jess Toh and our whole Suncatcher team and teams across Google, as well as our satellite partner Planet Labs, and the ride up into space on SpaceX Transporter 18.
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Katie Penn reacted on thisKatie Penn reacted on thisI've been tracking Planet 's marketing campaign in DC Metro stations. And I freakin’ love it: the thinking and the truth behind it. I even switched cars at the station today to search for one ad in the series that I couldn’t capture with my phone this morning because of the crowd. There's no surprise or unseen threat; it's just an evolving pattern that was missed. This is something I connect with, especially nowadays with the coverage of shipping and energy amid the Iran war. Like the issue of the dark fleet vessels in the Persian Gulf and how some are presenting it like something new; knowing that this has been going on for some months now. I know this platform's algorithm prefers posts crafted in a certain way. But as always to hell with the LinkedIn algorithm. This is a post to celebrate creation in a world saturated with copy and paste. Well done Planet and whoever led this campaign.
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Katie Penn liked thisKatie Penn liked thisInto the great… known. 🌎🛰️ With near-daily global scan and more than a decade of imagery, we’re helping our customers spot what’s happening, recognize patterns, and close the gap between seeing a problem and doing something about it. If your daily commute in D.C. takes you through the Pentagon Metro station, you’ve probably seen Planet in action. Can’t make it by? Here are a few highlights.👇 planet.com
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What is TechWomen? TechWomen empowers, connects and supports the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from Africa, Central and South Asia, and the Middle East by providing them the access and opportunity needed to advance their careers, pursue their dreams, and inspire women and girls in their communities. I am currently the executive lead for TechWomen at Twitter. As a mentor and company lead, I have helped facilitate experiences that expose the Emerging Leaders to an extensive professional network and support their implementation of a mentorship projects. I have participated in two delegation trips with the US State Department to Rwanda (2020) and Sierra Leone (2018).
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Looking forward to checking out AIAA Scitech in January. The nTop team is going all-in. Three speaking sessions on new methods that are actually changing how aircraft get designed (including Specter Aerospace's workflows that compressed their design timeline from weeks to days) Live demos with five tech partners showing how parametric geometry infrastructure connects your existing tools (CFD, optimization, AI/ML, etc.) into workflows that don't force you to choose between speed and fidelity Participation in Istari Digital's hackathon exploring requirements-to-design automation We're also recruiting full engineering teams for hands-on workshops like the one we held last month in Bristol. We spent the day with aero teams from 5 top primes where their engineers got hands on with our advanced aircraft workflows. (Thanks James G, Jan Vandenbrande, Hemant BHOOSNURMATH, and Adam Lebrecht for making that happen) If you're going, check out our event page and set reminders for the sessions that matter to you: https://lnkd.in/gGrtq6iJ See you in Orlando. #AIAA #SciTech
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