Planet Labs PBC Releases Images From Pelican-2
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Pelican-2 First Light imagery taken over the
“We’re super pleased with our Pelican-2 first light imagery. The spacecraft is exceeding expectations and is rising to meet the market needs of our customers,” said
Pelican-2 joins Pelican-1 (a smallsat platform tech demonstration launched last year) as part of Planet’s next-generation, high-resolution fleet to support and expand its existing SkySat capabilities. Pelican-2 provides high resolution imagery by leveraging 6 multispectral bands that are optimized for cross-sensor analysis with PlanetScope. Pelican-2 will support Planet’s 50 cm tasked imagery product line and is engineered to produce 40 cm class imagery.
Planet has collaborated with NVIDIA to equip Pelican-2 with the NVIDIA Jetson platform to power on-orbit computing—with the aim of vastly reducing the time between data capture and value for customers. Additional imagery with an increased resolution is expected to be available following the lowering of the spacecraft to its operational altitude and once the spacecraft and the imagery pipelines complete ongoing commissioning and calibration work. Planet plans to launch additional Pelicans this year.
“I’m deeply proud of the Pelican team that made this achievement possible. The data we’re getting back from the early stages of our Pelican-2 satellite proves the technical maturity of this new system, and is a testament to their hard work,” said
More information on Pelican-2’s capabilities can be found here.
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