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Planet Awarded as a Subcontractor for $95M California Satellite Data Purchase Program
SAN FRANCISCO, March 21, 2025--Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, today announced it was selected as the primary subcontractor for the California Air Resource Board’s (CARB) Satellite Data Purchase Program (SDPP). The $95M SDPP multi-year contract was awarded to Carbon Mapper with Planet as a subcontractor to provide the state of California with methane data built upon Tanager hyperspectral collections, and other Planet data products.
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