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Planet (NYSE: PL) released first light imagery from its Pelican-6 satellite showing Lhasa Gonggar International Airport in Tibet, taken on December 4, 2025 from ~519 km altitude. Pelican-6 and Pelican-5 launched on November 28, 2025 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-15 with 36 SuperDoves.

Planet said image quality will improve as instrument calibration completes and satellites reach final operational orbits. The first-generation Pelican satellites deliver high-resolution multispectral imagery across six bands, support Planet’s 50 cm products, include on-board NVIDIA Jetson AI chips for edge compute, and are designed toward 30 cm class resolution.

Planet (NYSE: PL) announced the successful November 28, 2025 launch of Pelican-5 and Pelican-6 plus 36 SuperDoves aboard SpaceX Transporter-15 from Vandenberg. Planet has made contact and started commissioning Pelican-5 and Pelican-6, which join Pelicans 1–4 as Gen 1 tasking satellites.

Pelican-5 and Pelican-6 are designed to deliver 40 cm-class resolution imagery across six multispectral bands and use NVIDIA Jetson AI for onboard edge computing to speed customer insights. The 36 SuperDoves expand the daily global PlanetScope monitoring fleet. Planet said it plans additional Pelican and SuperDove launches next year and next-gen Pelicans targeting up to 30 cm-class resolution in 2026.

Planet (PL) and Quantum Systems announced a strategic partnership on November 18, 2025 to jointly explore AI-enabled Tip & Cue intelligence solutions for European defense customers.

The concept would combine Planet’s broad-area satellite change detection, very-high-resolution tasking and analytics with Quantum Systems’ high-precision reconnaissance drones and MOSAIC UXS software to generate automated alerts (Tip) and trigger precise drone deployments (Cue), aiming to improve operational accuracy, reduce resource use, and lower analyst cognitive load.

Planet (NYSE:PL) will release fiscal third quarter 2026 results for the quarter ended October 31, 2025 after market close on Wednesday, December 10, 2025. Management will host a conference call and live webcast the same day at 5:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. PT to discuss financial results and business outlook.

The live webcast will be available on Planet’s Investor Relations website and archived for replay about two hours after the event. Pre-registration is available via the provided events link.

Planet (NYSE: PL) announced an 8-figure contract renewal on November 5, 2025 with a longstanding international defense and intelligence customer for high-resolution imagery.

The agreement provides access to Planet’s Pelican and SkySat assured tasking capabilities to support timely monitoring and intelligence gathering. Planet said the renewal reinforces demand from global defense and intelligence customers and builds on recent engagements with the German government, NATO, the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, and the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Planet (NYSE: PL) announced on October 16, 2025 that its subsidiary Planet Federal won an initial $12.8 million award under the NGA's Luno B IDIQ for Advanced Analytics for Maritime Operations and Reconnaissance (AAMOR). The work, won with partner SynMax, pairs daily PlanetScope imagery with SynMax Theia analytics to deliver AI-enabled maritime detections across Asia-Pacific, including monitoring for IUU fishing, ship-to-ship transfers, and vessel spoofing.

The Luno B IDIQ allows NGA to exercise pre-priced options to expand or extend the award.

Planet (NYSE:PL) will host an Investor Day in New York on Thursday, October 16, 2025, starting at 9:00 a.m. ET / 6:00 a.m. PT. Leadership sessions will include Will Marshall (Co‑Founder & CEO), Charlie Candy (Chief Revenue Officer), Robbie Schingler (Co‑Founder & Chief Strategy Officer), and Ashley Johnson (President & CFO).

The event will be accessible virtually; investors can view or register via the company’s investor relations site. A recording will be posted on the Investor Relations website shortly after the event.

Planet (NYSE: PL) was awarded a $7.5 million contract renewal with the US Navy via Planet Labs Federal for vessel detection and monitoring across key Pacific areas on October 7, 2025. The work integrates daily, global PlanetScope data and high-resolution SkySat imagery into the Department of Transportation’s SeaVision maritime situational awareness platform and leverages SynMax’s AI Theia analytics for vessel detections.

The system provides near real-time broad-area monitoring across millions of square kilometers, high-resolution follow-up of critical events, detection of potential “dark vessels” versus AIS, and shareable intelligence for SeaVision users and regional partners.

Planet (NYSE: PL) and VITO announced on October 6, 2025 an extension of their long-term partnership to accelerate Earth observation solutions for agriculture, global monitoring and environmental resilience. The collaboration will integrate Planet’s near-daily, global PlanetScope archive, Fusion, Analysis-Ready PlanetScope products and Planetary Variables with VITO’s analytics and service platforms.

Partners will co-develop user-centric products, offer state-of-the-art habitat maps from Planet’s high-resolution data, and deliver faster, actionable insights to public and private stakeholders to support biodiversity assessment and data-driven decisions.