At PLANET, we strive to transition valuable technologies from their initial development stages to viable commercial markets through production and sales, equity or market partnerships, and technology or product licenses.

Launched in 1995 in Madison , Wisconsin under a strategic alliance with Orbital Technologies Corporation (ORBITEC), PLANET provides an outlet to commercial markets for ORBITEC’s advanced space technologies. In return, PLANET’s products have had continuous access to ORBITEC's experienced research team to support future developments and improvements.

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NASA Awards PLANET LLC $600,000 to Build Hypercosm 3D Simulation Authoring Tool... Read Article

PLANET’s SUNBOW LED Science Research Light with six independently controlled wavelengths is now available after its launch at the Plant Biology and Botany 2007 conference.  Visit the Sunbow page.

Eight tons of PLANET’s commercial JSC-1A lunar regolith simulant has been used in part of the NASA Centennial Challenge, held in May 2007. Check out the challenge at California Space Authority.

PLANET is currently supporting NASA’s Engineering Design Challenge held throughout the 2007-2008 school year with Space Garden™ kits and activities.  Space Garden ’s flight version, the Astro Garden™ flew to the International Space Station on August 8, 2007 on Space Shuttle Endeavour.  For more information visit NASA's website or Space Garden's website.