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PlanetiQ supports the missions of U.S. government agencies and defense partners with a growing constellation of satellites delivering neutral atmosphere and ionosphere GNSS-RO data, RF sensing capabilities, and other space-based data products that strengthen national security, operational readiness, and public safety.

Weather Forecasting & Atmospheric Research: PlanetiQ has the highest-quality Signal-to-Noise Ratio GNSS-RO available, enabling more precise weather forecasting and atmospheric research that saves lives and benefits the environment and economy.

NOAA Partnership: In September 2025, NOAA awarded PlanetiQ a $24.3 million contract under the Commercial Data Program's Radio Occultation Data Buy 2 (RODB-2), representing NOAA's single largest commercial satellite weather data purchase to date.

Defense & Military Partners: PlanetiQ provides proprietary global GNSS-RO data to the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Space Force and other partners to enhance operations and mission success.

RF Sensing & Signal Intelligence: PlanetiQ's satellite constellation also supports the detection and geolocation of GNSS jamming, spoofing, and other signal interference, giving defense and government customers greater situational awareness in contested environments. See the RF Intelligence section below for more details.

Wind Energy: GNSS-RO data provides high-resolution atmospheric profiles, including temperature, enabling more accurate forecasts of wind speed/direction, and ultimately, turbine output. This helps optimize operations, predict power generation, and guide power trading decisions.

Solar Energy: GNSS-RO data improves surface solar irradiance forecasts by improving weather forecasts that predict key conditions such as cloud cover and temperature, allowing for better integration with other energy sources and more efficient power grid management.

Power Grid Optimization: Accurate forecasts of wind and solar generation support smarter resource allocation and optimized energy dispatch, boosting overall power grid efficiency.

Energy Demand Forecasting: Temperature is one of the strongest drivers of electricity demand. GNSS-RO data improves temperature forecasts, helping utilities anticipate heating and cooling load, plan generation capacity, and reduce the risk of costly supply-demand imbalances. Freeze events have also shown to be a disruptor to the power grid.

Grid Resilience & Severe Weather: GNSS-RO data enhances forecasting of severe weather events, including storms, hurricanes, as well as extreme cold and heat, that threaten transmission lines, substations, and other grid infrastructure. Earlier and more accurate warnings give utilities more time to prepare, harden infrastructure, and reduce outage risk.

Offshore Wind & Energy Operations: For offshore wind farms and other operations exposed to marine conditions, GNSS-RO data improves forecasts of lower tropospheric conditions, supporting safer operations and more reliable planning around weather-dependent maintenance and logistics.

High-Resolution Profiles: GNSS-RO delivers precise vertical profiles of temperature, pressure, and humidity, which are especially valuable over data-sparse regions like oceans.

Reduced Turbulence and Wind Shear Errors: More accurate atmospheric data from GNSS-RO lowers prediction errors, helping pilots adjust flight paths and avoid hazardous conditions.

Optimized Flight Routes: Improved forecasts enable airlines to plan more efficient routes, cutting fuel use and flight times.

Upper-Atmosphere Forecasting: GNSS-RO data provides detailed insight into upper-atmosphere conditions, improving forecasts, and enabling airlines to plan more efficient routes.

Better Departure & Arrival Planning: More accurate short-term weather forecasts support better decision-making around delays, diversions, and ground operations, reducing cascading disruptions across an airline's network.

Enhanced Safety in Data-Sparse Regions: Because GNSS-RO data doesn't depend on ground-based sensors, it fills critical atmospheric data gaps over oceans and remote areas, regions where traditional weather observations are limited, giving pilots and dispatchers a clearer picture of conditions along transoceanic and polar routes.

Enhanced Market Responsiveness: Real-time GNSS-RO data enables traders to react quickly to weather-driven market fluctuations.

Optimized Trading Strategies: Accurate forecasts support better decisions in weather-sensitive commodities such as energy and agriculture.

Improved Risk Management: More reliable long-range forecasts help traders and risk managers anticipate supply disruptions from droughts, floods, and severe storms, supporting better hedging and pricing decisions.

Regional and Global Data: GNSS-RO provides worldwide coverage, including regions lacking traditional weather observations.

Reduced Uncertainty: More accurate forecasts help farmers plan and reduce risks from extreme weather events.

Precision Planting & Harvest Timing: Improved short- and medium-range forecasts help growers make better decisions about planting windows, irrigation scheduling, and harvest timing, reducing weather-related crop loss.

Drought & Flood Monitoring: By improving forecasts of precipitation and atmospheric moisture, GNSS-RO data supports earlier identification of drought conditions and flood risk, giving farmers and agricultural planners more time to respond.

Accurate Risk Profiling: Precise forecasts help insurers better assess risks from natural disasters and weather-related events.

Optimized Underwriting: GNSS-RO data improves underwriting by refining risk estimates and premiums, supported by PlanetiQ's extensive historical records.

Parametric Insurance: GNSS-RO enables payouts based on predefined regional weather thresholds, streamlining parametric insurance policies.

Catastrophe Modeling: GNSS-RO data strengthens catastrophe models by improving the atmospheric inputs used to simulate hurricanes, severe storms, and other extreme weather events, leading to more reliable loss estimates.

Claims Verification: Historical GNSS-RO data can help insurers verify weather conditions at the time and location of a claim, supporting faster, more accurate claims assessment and reduced fraud risk. This same approach extends to spoofing-based theft claims, helping verify GNSS interference at the time of loss, as well as underwriting risk scoring by corridor for routes with elevated jamming or spoofing exposure.

Optimized Energy Distribution: Accurate forecasts help utilities anticipate demand shifts, optimize networks, and prevent weather-related disruptions.

Reduced Outages: Better awareness of upcoming events allows proactive resource management, lowering outage risks and shortening interruptions.

Infrastructure Planning: GNSS-RO data informs long-term planning by showing how climate change may impact weather patterns and extreme events.

Storm Preparedness & Crew Deployment: More accurate severe weather forecasts give utilities more lead time to pre-position repair crews, equipment, and mutual aid resources ahead of storms, reducing restoration times when outages do occur.

Water Utilities & Resource Management: GNSS-RO data also supports water utilities by improving precipitation and drought forecasts, helping with reservoir management, flood preparedness, and long-term water supply planning.

Optimized Shipping Routes: GNSS-RO data helps avoid hazardous weather, reduce delays, and improve fuel efficiency.

Dynamic Route Adjustments: Real-time insights enable shipping companies to adjust routes and keep deliveries on schedule.

Storm & Extreme Weather Avoidance: Improved forecasts over open ocean, where traditional weather data is limited, help vessels avoid tropical storms and other hazardous conditions that threaten crew safety and cargo integrity.

Port Operations & Scheduling: More accurate coastal and regional forecasts support better planning for port arrivals, departures, and cargo handling, reducing delays caused by weather-related disruptions.

Detecting and Geolocating GNSS Interference: PlanetiQ's satellite constellation and precision RF sensing capabilities give government agencies and commercial operators data to help identify and locate sources of GNSS jamming, spoofing, and other signal interference. By combining wide-area coverage with high-fidelity signal analysis, PlanetiQ helps customers build a clearer picture of where and how GNSS disruptions are occurring, supporting faster responses, more resilient navigation systems, and stronger protection of critical infrastructure that depends on accurate positioning, navigation, and timing.

Situational Awareness for Contested Environments: By continuously monitoring RF signals across wide areas, PlanetiQ helps defense and government customers maintain awareness of GNSS interference activity in contested or high-risk regions, supporting faster, more informed decision-making during operations.

Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Assets: GNSS-dependent systems such as power grids, telecommunications networks, financial systems, and fleet and logistics operations are vulnerable to disruption from jamming and spoofing. PlanetiQ's RF sensing capabilities help identify these threats early, giving operators the information needed to respond before disruptions cascade into larger failures. For construction, fleet, and logistics management, this data can detect spoofing-based asset theft, flag false coordinates for high-value jobsite equipment, minimize cargo theft via GPS misdirection, and highlight anomalies when trucks appear in unexpected locations. 

Supporting Safer Navigation: For aviation, maritime, and other transportation sectors that rely on GNSS for safe operations, detecting and geolocating sources of interference helps operators avoid affected areas, maintain accurate positioning, and reduce the risk of navigation errors caused by spoofed or degraded signals.

Ionospheric Monitoring: GNSS-RO data reveals detailed ionospheric conditions, including electron density profiles, crucial for understanding space weather events that affect satellites and communication systems.

GPS & GNSS Signal Reliability: By tracking ionospheric disturbances, GNSS-RO data helps identify conditions that can degrade GNSS signal accuracy, supporting more reliable positioning, navigation, and timing for critical infrastructure and operations.

Communications & Radio Disruption: Space weather events, such as geomagnetic storms and solar flares, can disrupt HF radio and satellite communications. GNSS-RO data helps characterize these ionospheric disturbances.

Satellite Operations & Anomaly Awareness: Ionospheric and thermospheric variability driven by space weather can increase atmospheric drag and affect satellite orbits. 

Space Weather Forecasting: As part of a growing satellite constellation, PlanetiQ's GNSS-RO data contributes to space weather models used by government agencies and research institutions to forecast geomagnetic storms and their downstream effects on power grids, aviation, and satellite systems.