Planet Releases First Light from Pelican-12
Planet released the first light image from Pelican-12, its newest Gen 2 high-resolution satellite, captured October 30 over Luanda, Angola from about 589 km altitude following launch on SpaceX's Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission. Pelican-12 is Planet's first 30 cm class capable satellite, initially delivering 50 cm class imagery with 30 cm class designed after reaching operational altitude, and carries NVIDIA Jetson edge compute plus a new low-latency communications demonstration.
Key figures
- Launches this year
- 4
- Capture altitude km
- 589
- Satellites launched this year
- 25
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