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PELICAN

Pelican Delivers
the Details

Rapid, responsive, resilient

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Pelican™ is designed to provide faster tasking with greater clarity from very high-resolution imagery. Its improved optical performance and expanded spectral range are designed to deliver sharper, more detailed imagery while maintaining continuity with SkySat® imagery.


The Pelican Constellation

Next-Generation Tasking

Sharper Imagery and Faster Tasking for Greater Situational Awareness

Pelican enables deeper analytics with crisp, detailed imagery captured by large mirrors and an optimized optical system that’s seamlessly integrated into our existing unified tasking platform.

Pelican is designed to provide a leap forward in capabilities, giving you the information you need to act confidently in the face of change.


HOW IT CAN HELP

Stay Ahead Through Continuous Change

The Pelican constellation is designed to efficiently capture fleeting and emerging events, especially those that may anticipate new patterns or risks.

Faster Strategic Decisions

Incredible imagery delivered multiple times per day enables you to make more informed and rapid decisions that are critical for managing resources and protecting lives.

Identify and Monitor Critical Assets

Easily identify and track critical military, civilian, and operational assets with very high-resolution imagery captured multiple times per day that can identify specific vehicle types, detect infrastructure damage, and track the progress of construction.

Reduce Operational Costs

Monitor critical areas of interest without the time, cost, and risk from sending personnel, drones, or aircraft into potentially dangerous situations.

Get Ready for AI Insights

Pelican is equipped with the NVIDIA Jetson AI platform that is designed to rapidly analyze data in order to optimize data transmission.. This is designed to drastically reduce the time it takes to get actionable insights to analysts and decision makers.

Maintain Workflows

Support existing SkySat workflows with compatible imagery.

PELICAN SATELLITE SPECS
Very-high Resolution Imagery, Multiple Times a Day

ResolutionGen 1: 50 cm
Gen 2 planned: 30 cm
Sensor BandsPanchromatic
Blue
Green
Red
Red Edge
Near-IR Wide
Near-IR Narrow
Swath WidthGen 1: 8 km
Gen 2 planned: 6 km
Revisit RateMultiple per Day
Geolocation Accuracy< 10 m CE90 with Planet ground control points

Pelican Gen 1 Now Available; Pelican Gen 2 Coming Soon

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PELICAN SATELLITE SPECS
Very-high Resolution Imagery, Multiple Times a Day

ResolutionGen 1: 50 cm
Gen 2 planned: 30 cm
Sensor BandsPanchromatic
Blue
Green
Red
Red Edge
Near-IR Wide
Near-IR Narrow
Swath WidthGen 1: 8 km
Gen 2 planned: 6 km
Revisit RateMultiple per Day
Geolocation Accuracy< 10 m CE90 with Planet ground control points

Pelican Gen 1 Now Available; Pelican Gen 2 Coming Soon

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Forward Looking Statements
This webpage contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, the Company’s expectations regarding future product development and performance, including with respect to AI, the Company’s ability to realize any of the potential benefits from current or future product developments or strategic partnerships and customer collaborations, the Company’s ability to successfully design, build, launch and deploy its next generation satellites, including with respect to timing, and the Company’s ability to realize any of the potential benefits from satellite launches, either as designed, within the expected time frame, in a cost-effective manner, or at all. Because such statements are based on expectations as to future events and results and are not statements of fact, actual results may differ materially from those projected. Factors which may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include the risk factors included in the Company's periodic reports, proxy statements, and other disclosure materials filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which are available online at www.sec.gov, and on the Company's website at investors.planet.com. All forward-looking statements reflect the Company’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the date such statements are made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

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