Planet Awarded NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Evaluation Task Order for Tanager Hyperspectral Data
Business Wire•21/10/2026•09:15 ET
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Key Highlights
- ➤NASA awarded Planet’s subsidiary an evaluation task order under its CSDA program
- ➤NASA will evaluate Tanager data covering more than 250,000 square kilometers
- ➤Tanager provides over 400 spectral channels at 30-meter resolution
- ➤Tanager-2 detected its first methane plume over Spain’s Costa Blanca
- ➤NASA will publish a report assessing Tanager data quality, utility, and integration potential
Expert Statements
Robbie Schingler, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder at Planet
“NASA’s CSDA program continues to pioneer novel pathways for commercial innovation to serve the scientific community.”
Robbie Schingler, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder at Planet
“Hyperspectral data holds immense potential for understanding our changing planet, but realizing that potential depends on how quickly and effectively scientists can put it to work.”
Robbie Schingler, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder at Planet
“By making rich spectral data available to researchers, NASA is enabling new approaches to solve pressing environmental challenges.”
Robbie Schingler, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder at Planet
“This evaluation will help train a whole new cadre of scientists whose results will inform future government users and commercial applications.”
Planet Awarded NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Evaluation Task Order for Tanager Hyperspectral Data
NASA CSDA to evaluate over 250,000 square kilometers of Tanager’s high-resolution hyperspectral dataset to accelerate Earth science research, following the successful launch and first light of Tanager-2
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