{"id":128933,"date":"2021-10-13T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/planet-labs-soon-to-be-public-unveils-more-powerful-pelican-imagery-satellites"},"modified":"2021-10-13T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:22:40","slug":"planet-labs-soon-to-be-public-unveils-more-powerful-pelican-imagery-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/planet-labs-soon-to-be-public-unveils-more-powerful-pelican-imagery-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Planet Labs, soon to be public, unveils more powerful Pelican imagery satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/planet-labs-soon-to-be-public-unveils-more-powerful-pelican-imagery-satellites3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earth imaging and data specialist Planet Labs on Tuesday announced a new line of imagery satellites, called Pelican, as the company prepares to go public later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelican satellites are meant to upgrade Planet\u2019s existing constellation of 21 SkySat satellites in orbit, with launches beginning in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s higher resolution, and having more satellites in space means that you actually end up having a higher revisit capability and [Pelican is] being designed for what our users want \u2013 which is speed and near-real time understanding about what\u2019s happening,\u201d Planet co-founder and chief strategy officer Robbie Schingler told CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth imaging and data specialist Planet Labs on Tuesday announced a new line of imagery satellites, called Pelican, as the company prepares to go public later this year. The Pelican satellites are meant to upgrade Planet\u2019s existing constellation of 21 SkySat satellites in orbit, with launches beginning in 2022. \u201cIt\u2019s higher resolution, and having more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}