{"id":1364,"date":"2026-06-04T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planet-delivers-pelican-11-to-launch-site-ahead-of-spacex-transporter-17-mission\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:56:23","slug":"planet-delivers-pelican-11-to-launch-site-ahead-of-spacex-transporter-17-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planet-delivers-pelican-11-to-launch-site-ahead-of-spacex-transporter-17-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Delivers Pelican-11 to Launch Site Ahead of SpaceX Transporter-17 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/pelican_cover_639161041579802220.webp\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Planet Delivers Pelican-11 to Launch Site Ahead of SpaceX Transporter-17 Mission\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/pelican_cover_639161041579802220.webp\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/pelican_cover_639161041579802220.webp\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Planet Labs PBC<\/strong>, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced that Pelican-11, the tech demonstration satellite of the second generation (Gen 2) of its high-resolution Pelican fleet, has shipped to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of the launch aboard the upcoming Transporter-17 rideshare mission with SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>Planet\u2019s first generation (Gen 1) Pelicans are designed to capture 50 cm class resolution imagery. Pelican-11 will join the existing Pelican fleet, and serve as a means of testing new technologies before their integration onboard Planet\u2019s second generation (Gen 2) Pelicans, which are designed to provide up to 30 cm class imagery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: Commercial Satellite Imagery: Quality Characteristics Guide<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pelican-11 is not anticipated to produce commercially available data; instead, it will collect information to inform Planet\u2019s future Pelican designs and act as a testbed for new Gen 2 technologies and concepts of operation.<\/p>\n<p>Planet plans to launch additional Pelican spacecraft in 2026 and 2027 to continue to meet the rising, global customer demand for sovereign satellite ownership and Planet\u2019s high-resolution data products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced that Pelican-11, the tech demonstration satellite of the second generation (Gen 2) of its high-resolution Pelican fleet, has shipped to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of the launch aboard the upcoming Transporter-17 rideshare mission with SpaceX. Planet\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,20],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}