# Planet Labs Built Its Business on Daily Images of Earth. The US Government Just Put a Shutter Over Iran.

- slug: planet-labs-built-its-business-on-daily-images-of-earth-the-us-government-just-put-a-shutter-ove
- date: 2026-04-09
- category: Space & Aerospace

Planet blacked out conflict-zone imagery, and customers received the news retroactively: data they had already paid for had been deleted before they knew it existed.

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