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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by chimere on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:43PM (#13653791)
This launch was to 500km, and the Doves are around 150kg/m^2 (4.5kg / 0.03m^2). This puts their lifetime at around 5 years according to that linked plot.

For reference, Planet's earlier launches were to the ISS (400km) and lasted less than a year, which your plot agrees with.

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