# The Air Force Is Paying PlanetiQ to Build Weather Satellites It Has Not Yet Launched - Date: 2026-04-16 - Category: Space & Aerospace PlanetiQ has 3 sats in orbit and a contract for satellites it has not yet built. COSMIC-2 is dying. The Air Force just bet $15M that a 40-fold capacity gap is a problem the private sector can solve faster than the government can. ---