Good quarter overall but I think market liked this more than anything else
>Now I want to provide a little more context on our two strategic projects that we announced in the quarter. Firstly, in October, we announced OWL, our next-generation monitoring fleet, to continue our unique broad area monitoring mission currently serviced by the SuperDove fleet, but improving the resolution to one-meter class, lowering the latency, and significantly upgrading the onboard compute to incorporate NVIDIA GPUs. OWL is designed from the ground up to address expanded applications ranging from security to disaster response to rapid change detection. The first tech demo is slated for launch later in calendar year 2026, and we're incredibly excited about the future of our daily monitoring solutions. Secondly, we've recently announced a funded R&D initiative with Google called Project SunCatcher.
>Will Marshall
>CEO, Chairperson, and Co-Founder
>0:11:19
>SunCatcher aims to enable scaled AI computing in space by putting Google's Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, on purpose-designed satellites where they can leverage the energy of the sun and shed excess heat into the natural coldness of space. This was a competitive win for Planet, and our strong track record of building, launching, and operating over 600 satellites to date, together with our collaboration on AI-enabled solutions, represents a competitive edge underlying the depth of our experience and our Agile Aerospace approach. SunCatcher aligns well with our technology development roadmap for Owl, leveraging the same satellite bus and is therefore highly synergistic. As previously announced, we're planning to deploy two prototype satellites in early 2027. We're excited to be working with our long-term partner, Google, to develop this promising new technology.
# Blue Owl Capital Is A Tangled Web
[https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2025/12/10/blue-owl-capital-is-a-tangled-web/](https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2025/12/10/blue-owl-capital-is-a-tangled-web/)