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NATO Taps Planet Labs to Track Global Threats with SkySat Imagery

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NATO Taps Planet Labs to Track Global Threats with SkySat Imagery
Planet SkySat imagery of Diamond 8 delivering oil at Nampo Oil Terminal in North Korea © 2018, Planet Labs Inc. All Rights Reserved. Analysis: C4ADS, RUSI.

Planet Labs will provide high-resolution satellite data to support the NATO Communications and Information Agency‘s (NCIA) Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space (APSS) program under a new contract the company said Monday. The data, sourced from Planet’s SkySat system, will be used to track and analyze foreign military capabilities and activities, monitor military infrastructure, and assess threats. Commercially provided satellite data has increasingly been used to fill missing intelligence gaps for agencies like NCIA, which established its APSS program in February 2023 to enhance…

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