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Planet Pulse
Company blog · planet.com/pulsesciencedata
Planet Pulse is the company blog at planet.com, writing about science and data. Since 2014, 113 different Hacker News readers have linked it 187 times, most often “Planet Explorer Beta”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention planet.com as a satellite-imaging company, in hiring threads and as a source of Earth imagery. The comments do not discuss the writing in its Pulse posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Discover how Planet's daily satellite imagery and insights empower global decisions and actions with a multidimensional view of our changing planet.
Most-linked posts?
- Planet Explorer Beta24 people · 27 mentions · first linked 2014-11-18
- /products/planet-imagery/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-08-14
- /4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-12-01
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-04-07
- /careers/3 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-04-13
- /pulse/keeping-space-clean-responsible-satellite-fleet-operations/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-04-13
- Planet Releases OpenLST: An Open Radio Solution for Cubesats3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-07
- Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whole Planet Daily3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-15
- /pulse/12x-rapid-revisit-announcement/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-17
- Carbon Mapper: Satellite Program to Pinpoint Methane and CO2 Super Emitters2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-15
What Hacker News says?
It is a combination of data. > You can see a large collection of imagery in Google Earth, including satellite, aerial, 3D, and Street View images. Images are collected over time from providers and platforms. Images aren't in real time, so you won't see live changes. ( https://support.google.com/earth/answer/6327779?hl=en ) I am sure they buy some data from a plethora of companies, such as Harris Geospatial( http://w…
Comment linking /pulse/planet-to-acquire-terra-bella-from-google/
on “Google Maps' Moat”Submitted Planet Explorer Beta as a story · 242 points
HN discussionThis is more or less the business model of Planet [0], which is imaging the whole Earth every day with around 200 satellites. (No affiliation, but I previously worked for a different smallsat company.) It would be possible to get a higher visitation than that with more satellites, but it may not be cost-effective (e.g. someone might be willing to pay $X for a subscription to daily images, but not $(48*X) for half-ho…
Comment linking /products/planet-imagery/
on “Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?”Submitted Satellites Taking Pictures of Rockets Carrying More Satellites as a story · 214 points
HN discussionplanet.com can get you a ~12 images per day [1] for a reasonable price. If cost really isn't an issue, I'm confident you could strike a deal with planet.com to place their next few new satellites into the specific orbit you want to up the frequency even more. [1]: https://www.planet.com/pulse/12x-rapid-revisit-announcement/ , as of June 2020.
Comment linking /pulse/12x-rapid-revisit-announcement/
on “Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?”Submitted Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google as a story · 181 points
HN discussionhttps://planet.com (planet customer, no other affiliation)
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on “Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?”Submitted Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whole Planet Daily as a story · 117 points
HN discussionPlanet | San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA | Machine Learning Engineer (and other roles) | Full-time | Onsite Planet's mission is to use space to help live on earth. Our goal is to image the whole world every day and make global change visible, accessible and actionable. We are currently seeking several experienced Machine Learning Engineers to help us figure out how our world changes every day. Open positions: * Lea…
Comment linking /company/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted A Hands-On Guide to Color Correction as a story · 117 points
HN discussionPlanet Labs -- http://planet.com/ -- San Francisco, CA (Remote work depends on the role -- some are onsite only, others may be available to remote workers.) Planet Labs has a large number of positions open. We're a collection of electrical, mechanical, aerospace, software, science, etc. folks looking to image the whole planet on a daily basis with a large number of small satellites. It's a terrific bunch of folks do…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Open California: an archive of free high-quality satellite imagery as a story · 107 points
HN discussionPlanet Labs -- San Francisco, CA -- REMOTE Planet Labs ( http://planet.com/ ) in San Francisco, CA has a large number of positions open. We're a collection of electrical, mechanical, aerospace, software, science, etc. folks looking to image the whole planet on a daily basis with a large number of small satellites. It's a terrific bunch of folks doing what we call "agile aerospace". We've launched ~90 satellites so f…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Aircraft detection at planetary scale as a story · 96 points
HN discussionAre you referring to their Open California dataset? https://www.planet.com/products/open-california/ It's larger as Open California only has the datasets from Landsat 8, Sentinel, and Planet's own satellites.
Comment linking /products/open-california/
on “Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data”Submitted Towards daily imaging of Spaceship Earth as a story · 64 points
HN discussion7) there are several companies in this space, https://www.planet.com/ being one, and they're acquiring another one, Terra Bella (formerly Skybox), the deal is on the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13573523 ). There might be more that I don't remember.
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on “Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?”Submitted Get Definitive Skytruth with Esoterra as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI guess these guys will be affected: https://www.planet.com/
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on “U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software”Submitted Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google as a story · 8 points
HN discussionPlanet [ https://planet.com ] | San Francisco, CA | Full-time, onsite or US-based remote Planet operates the largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites, and we're looking for an SRE to join our Mission Control software team. Come work on AWS and satellites in low Earth orbit. See more info in the full job post: https://www.planet.com/company/careers/jobs/?gh_jid=237107 (^^^ my team) also... Planet [ https://planet.co…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted Doves Hitch Ride with SpaceX as a story · 7 points
HN discussionPlanet | Software Engineer | SF, Seattle | ONSITE and REMOTE, https://planet.com Planet designs, manufactures and launches nano-satellites to image the entire earth. These satellites, called Doves, will (very) soon image the entire earth, every day. This data set will reveal unprecedented insights of our changing world, and we need talented Software Engineers to help build the public Platform to get this data to cus…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted How we tracked the Chinese balloon in satellite data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPlanet | SF | System Testbed Engineer | ONSITE | https://www.planet.com Planet designs, builds, and operates the world's largest fleet of earth observation satellites. In this role, you will lead test and validation efforts to improve quality and drive development speed through testing and validation. You will work closely with cross-functional team members to develop and maintain a test infrastructure and to test n…
Comment linking /company/careers/jobs/?gh_jid=587830
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted Planet Releases OpenLST: An Open Radio Solution for Cubesats as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPlanet Labs -- http://planet.com/ -- San Francisco, CA (Remote work depends on the role -- some are onsite only, others may be available to remote workers.) Planet Labs has a large number of positions open. We're a collection of electrical, mechanical, aerospace, software, science, etc. folks looking to image the whole planet on a daily basis with a large number of small satellites. It's a terrific bunch of folks do…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”Submitted Show HN: Better API Docs to access remote sensing data from Planet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPlanet Labs -- http://planet.com/ -- San Francisco, CA (Remote work depends on the role -- some are onsite only, others may be available to remote workers.) Planet Labs has a large number of positions open. We're a collection of electrical, mechanical, aerospace, software, science, etc. folks looking to image the whole planet on a daily basis with a large number of small satellites. It's a terrific bunch of folks do…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”Submitted Planet Labs – new images of the Earth everyday as a story · 4 points
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