{"id":2770,"date":"2025-09-15T13:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planet-labs-releases-first-light-images-from-pelican-3-satellite-over-turin\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:28:58","slug":"planet-labs-releases-first-light-images-from-pelican-3-satellite-over-turin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planet-labs-releases-first-light-images-from-pelican-3-satellite-over-turin\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Labs Releases First Light Images from Pelican-3 Satellite Over Turin"},"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\/cover1595_638935124469961809.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Planet Labs Releases First Light Images from Pelican-3 Satellite Over Turin\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/cover1595_638935124469961809.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/cover1595_638935124469961809.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"376\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Planet Labs PBC<\/strong>, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, released first light images from its Pelican-3 satellite of Turin, Italy. It was taken on September 5, 2025, from an altitude of 458 km. Image quality is expected to improve as the spacecraft completes the instrument calibration process and reaches its final operational orbits. Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 launched on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 NAOS mission on August 26, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be sharing our<\/em><em>&nbsp;Pelican-3<\/em><em>&nbsp;first light imagery, captured just days after these satellites were launched. These spacecraft are already demonstrating and reinforcing the incredible agility of the expanding Pelican constellation,\u201d said <strong><\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Will Marshall<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>, Co-Founder and CEO of&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Planet<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>.<\/strong> \u201cOur Pelican satellites offer state-of-the-art capabilities, from high resolution to rapid revisits to AI processing at the edge, driven by the&nbsp;<\/em><em>NVIDIA<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>Jetson platform<\/em><em>&nbsp;on board. With a fully ramped Pelican production line, we\u2019re building and launching Pelicans at our fastest pace yet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: How AI-Driven Imagery Technology is Revolutionizing Satellite Network Operations?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 join Pelican-2 and Pelican-1 (a smallsat platform tech demonstration launched in 2023) as part of Planet\u2019s growing next-generation, high-resolution constellation. This first generation of Pelican satellites provides high-resolution imagery across 6 multispectral bands that are optimized for cross-sensor analysis. These Pelicans are designed to provide up to 40 cm class resolution imagery and have NVIDIA Jetson AI chips on board for on-orbit computing at the edge. Planet expects its next generation of Pelican satellites, launching beginning next year, to reach 30 cm imagery.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCapturing first light images this quickly is a tremendous achievement for the Pelican team, and demonstrates the progress we\u2019ve made in reducing our time to making our spacecraft operational,\u201d <strong>said <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Brian Lewis<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>, Mission Director, Pelican<\/strong>. \u201cOur growing Pelican fleet scales up our ability to rapidly provide customers with the critical imagery they need to make informed decisions at the pace of global change.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, released first light images from its Pelican-3 satellite of Turin, Italy. It was taken on September 5, 2025, from an altitude of 458 km. Image quality is expected to improve as the spacecraft completes the instrument calibration process and reaches [&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":[26,20],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770"}],"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=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}