{"id":2859,"date":"2025-08-27T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planet-successfully-launches-ai-powered-high-resolution-pelican-3-and-pelican-4-satellites\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:44:40","slug":"planet-successfully-launches-ai-powered-high-resolution-pelican-3-and-pelican-4-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planet-successfully-launches-ai-powered-high-resolution-pelican-3-and-pelican-4-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Successfully Launches AI-Powered High-Resolution Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 satellites"},"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\/Planet_lab_cover_638918723520504994.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Planet Successfully Launches AI-Powered High-Resolution Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 satellites\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/Planet_lab_cover_638918723520504994.png\" style=\"opacity: 0;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/Planet_lab_cover_638918723520504994.png\"><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 its high-resolution, AI-enabled Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 satellites were successfully launched to orbit on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Planet team has successfully made contact with Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 and started the commissioning processes for these satellites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: What is the role of AI in Space Exploration and Satellite Operations?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joining Pelican-1 and Pelican-2, Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 are the latest additions to Planet\u2019s fleet of next-generation tasking satellites. Planet plans to launch additional Pelicans this year.<\/p>\n<p>As Gen 1 Pelican satellites, Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 are built to provide up to 40 cm class resolution imagery across 6 multispectral bands optimized for cross-sensor analysis. Through Planet\u2019s partnership with NVIDIA, these Pelicans are equipped with NVIDIA Jetson AI platforms to enable rapid on-orbit computing and the swift delivery of insights to customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced that its high-resolution, AI-enabled Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 satellites were successfully launched to orbit on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.&nbsp; The Planet team has successfully made contact with Pelican-3 and Pelican-4 and started the [&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-2859","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\/2859"}],"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=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}