Co-Founder of Planet Labs and ex-NASA innovator
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2007
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It was great to see your friendly face in the front row, @FutureJurvetson!
How satellites + AI can protect the planet 🛰
Robbie Schingler, co-founder of Planet, shares the latest from their daily raster scan of every part of our planet from space. I was taking notes from the front row.
Planet's 3rd TED Talk just went live:
ted.com/talks/robbie_schingl… $PL
The @TedConferences stage has always been a place for bold ideas about the future, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to share @planet vision of Planetary Intelligence.
Watch here: planet.com/pulse/at-ted-robb… 1/7
I'll be in Singapore for @superai_conf this year - come by and learn about the work we are doing at @planet with Space + AI convergence!
Planet Labs photographs the entire landmass of Earth every day. Co-founder @schingler argues this gives AI a new sensory modality: continuous data on the physical world, not text and images scraped from the internet.
Learn more about @Planet at SuperAI Singapore, 10-11 June.
It was great being back at my old stomping grounds @NASAAmes to visit with @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman on how we can develop innovative public private mission architectures to speed time to science. I'm excited for more, faster and upgradable science missions!
With a great partnership between @planet and @SES_Satellites we have demonstrated Ka-band Inter-satellite communications for @nasa. The future of real-time insights, with multi-path communications, is another step closer.
planet.com/pulse/planet-and-…
Here is more information on the status of @nasa Communication Services Project (CSP) where this @SES_Satellites demo is one of the two demonstrations @planet is supporting for NASA.
nasa.gov/technology/space-co…
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Congratulations @rookisaacman for becoming the 15th @NASA administrator today and confirmed with other 2/3 of senators in favor. Let's get to work!
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And non-raptorial birds for OSINT and Left-of-Launch.
Space Force rolls out new naming scheme for satellites and space weapons spacenews.com/space-force-ro…
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Congrats @blueorigin on NG-2 launch and successful landing of the first stage! A huge accomplishment for the whole team and for the entire space ecosystem. The @planet team was cheering you on!!
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With the continued decrease of launch costs over the coming years, new space missions become possible. In this case, it is data centers in space.
Additional technologies need to be developed and @google selected @planet to partner on their latest moonshot: Project Suncatcher!
We're partnering with @Google to build & launch sats for their new Project Suncatcher! ☀️🛰️
This bold moonshot will test their TPUs in space as an experiment to harness the 24/7, unfiltered sun for power, and cold background of space for cooling, towards a future compute-in-space architecture. Ultimately this is about taking power intensive infrastructure off Earth, into space.
At @planet, we love taking on audacious projects, in line with our purpose: to use space to help life on Earth. We're honoured @Google selected us for this exciting new mission!
Humanity came together for nuclear non-proliferation and we can do the same for AI. A great article by @Will4Planet in the FT today.
ft.com/content/767d1feb-2c6a…
It has a nod to the Pugwash conferences - whose NDA comes from the Einstein-Russell Manifesto. My favorite quote is at the end, "remember your humanity, and forget the rest."
ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/ke…
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In the first days of the Tanager program, High Tide Foundation and @carbonmapper went straight to @MikeBloomberg to be part of the founding philanthropists to enable the first of it's kind PPP. I'm incredibly proud of how successful the @carbonmapper coalition has become! @planet
🌍 This #ZeroEmissionsDay, we’re looking up.
With support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, @carbonmapper and @planet launched the Tanager-1 satellite to track methane super-emitters worldwide. This technology is helping us see what’s been invisible for too long, and giving leaders the data they need to act against one of the most powerful drivers of climate change:
🔥 Methane traps 80x more heat than CO₂
🌡️ Responsible for nearly a third of global warming
🛰️ Now, we can track it—and stop it.
Learn more about this breakthrough and its impact on our planet.
It's been a long time coming - but super stoked to see it getting easier and easier to get started with EO Data and AI Technologies! @planet planet.com/pulse/planet-enab…
Congratulations @fireflyspace for being the first commercial company in history to successfully land on the moon!! @openlunar
Blue Ghost’s shadow seen on the Moon’s surface! We’ll continue to share images and updates throughout our surface operations. #BGM1
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Hey @gtwhitesides - Planet has your back! Here we imaged the Hughes Fire ... hopefully this data can help!
The Hughes Fire rapidly surpassed 10,000 acres north of Santa Clarita in LA County this week. It is currently 56% contained, according to Cal Fire, and the Santa Ana winds are expected to ease today. Tanager-1 captured the extent of its burn scar in infrared data, with SkySat and PlanetScope supplying additional details.
be sure to support @planet4589 and the transition of the largest private space library and allowing for him to continue to create the most important, free, digital public good space catalog in history! gofundme.com/f/fund-jonathan…
It's launch day at @planet - we have 36 SuperDoves and Pelican-2 on the @SpaceX Transporter-12 mission. youtube.com/watch?v=Qwi1ffpX…
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When we started @planet, the primary social good use case was to count trees with the Dove-family of satellites. Now we make that actionable by measuring the amount of carbon in every tree, everywhere, every quarter.
go.planet.com/fcm
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While I've been focusing more on increasing global security, the global "we" cannot lose the plot on the sustainability transition needed for our Planet. The Conservation Imperatives paper is a blueprint for where to prioritize biodiversity efforts. frontiersin.org/journals/sci…
Wild Wild Space - a new @HBO documentary - is streaming on July 17. It features the backstory of @Astra @RocketLab and @planet - and captures the personalities of the founders well! Based largely on the @ashleevance book.
press.wbd.com/us/media-relea… youtube.com/watch?v=Q50dAiKB…
One of my favorite organizations of all time, @inaturalist, is looking for a Head of Engineering and to join their Exec team. Please pass along to interested candidates!! app.beapplied.com/apply/goty…
