Planet expects to begin launching the Pelican satellites in early 2023, with the constellation consisting of up to 32 spacecraft.
"Pelican stacks right up to the highest resolution of what is commercially available today," Planet co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Robbie Schingler told CNBC.on Thursday unveiled details of its new line of Pelican satellites, as the company looks to further expand and improve its space-based imagery capabilities.
The Pelican satellites will boast the ability to capture images up to a resolution of 30 centimeters, meaning each pixel shows more detail than the 50 centimeter resolution of Planet's current 21 SkySat satellites in orbit. "Pelican stacks right up to the highest resolution of what is commercially available today. The difference is the number that we can have, the more revisits that we can have and the real-time connectivity – and then also what you get with Planet as an unclassified source," Planet co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Robbie Schingler told CNBC.
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