Planet Labs' open satellite feed

I wish Planet had better pricing for nonprofits. I co-run a conservation nonprofit focused on deforestation in Latin America, and our affordable choices are between 2 year old Google Earth imagery, 10m resolution Nimbo imagery (ok, but not sufficiently detailed to evidentiary), and Sentinel 1 SAR data, which is useful but very noisy. Planet quoted us something like $30k per year for a strip of coastline that represents something like 5% of the territory we're monitoring, so it's just not a viable option under their current pricing model.

Refreshingly doesn't feel like AI. If someone asked me "what does software engineering look like", I would point to this.

This is cool, learned of two new file extensions: .tle and .parquet

Pictured with three of the worst russophobes and most rabid euro warmongers.

Such a shame.

Are most of their currently operating satellites servicing Flock - the US surveillance company? Or is it just a naming accident?