Planet Labs announces extension of blanket purchase agreement with NASA

Planet Labs announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, has extended its blanket purchase agreement with Planet under the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition, or CSDA, program with multiple orders totaling $18.5M in funding through 2024. With the CSDA Program, approved civilian federally funded researchers and federal civilian agency employees can access Planet’s 50 petabyte archive of PlanetScope imagery for scientific use and Earth science applications. Since 2018, thousands of researchers have accessed Planet satellite data through the CSDA Program for their studies on climate change, biodiversity loss, disaster response, and more.