SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced it has been awarded a $7.5 million contract renewal with the US Navy through its subsidiary Planet Labs Federal for vessel detection and monitoring over key areas of interest throughout the Pacific. The project integrates both Planet's daily, global PlanetScope data and high-resolution SkySat data into the Department of Transportation's SeaVision platform, a web. ...

The space-based geographic data provider had several good pieces of news to report.Investors very much wanted to colonize Planet Labs' (PL 1.14%) stock over the past few trading days. Thanks largely to encouraging quarterly results published by the company, which provides detailed geographic information about Earth culled from satellites, it had a banner week in the equity market. According to data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence, its share price ballooned by almost 50% in that time frame.A satel ...