{"id":47346,"date":"2026-03-18T17:33:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satellogic-plans-next-gen-merlin-eo-constellation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:33:46","slug":"satellogic-plans-next-gen-merlin-eo-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satellogic-plans-next-gen-merlin-eo-constellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellogic Plans Next-Gen Merlin EO Constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Satellogic<\/strong> detailed plans for its next-generation \u2018Merlin\u2019 satellites, designed to provide one-meter resolution. The company said that Merlin will be differentiated by its ability to provide daily mapping of the entire planet, with one-meter spatial resolution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Satellogic is moving quickly to deploy Merlin, with the first satellite scheduled to launch in October of this year, with full operational capability expected in the first half of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Satellogic currently offers monitoring capabilities with its Aleph Observer product. The next-generation satellites will increase capability for site monitoring from thousands of monitored sites to millions, the company said.&nbsp;The company also explained one-meter resolution allows analysts to identify \u201cmeaningful activity\u201d on the ground, like the presence or absence of monitored objects, aircraft movement, vehicle activity, and infrastructure changes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMerlin is designed to solve a fundamental limitation in Earth observation,\u201d said Emiliano Kargieman, CEO and co-founder of Satellogic. \u201cUntil now, organizations had to choose between global coverage at low resolution or high-resolution monitoring of a limited number of sites. Merlin removes that trade-off and enables persistent monitoring at planetary scale.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellogic detailed plans for its next-generation \u2018Merlin\u2019 satellites, designed to provide one-meter resolution. The company said that Merlin will be differentiated by its ability to provide daily mapping of the entire planet, with one-meter spatial resolution.&nbsp; Satellogic is moving quickly to deploy Merlin, with the first satellite scheduled to launch in October of this year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47347,"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":[],"class_list":["post-47346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47346"}],"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=47346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}