Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
announced today that it has signed a $230 million contract with an unnamed commercial partner in the Asia-Pacific region to build and deliver a fleet of its new, sharp-eyed Pelican
Planet, which was founded in 2010, operates the world's largest network of Earth-imaging satellites. The most numerous and well-known of these are theAlso in Planet's stable are larger and sharper-eyed SkySats, which feature a resolution of about 1.6 feet per pixel and can be actively trained on targets below.
"Additionally, Planet has collaborated with NVIDIA to equip Pelican-2 with the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics to power on-orbit computing — with the aim of vastly reducing the time between data capture and its availability for customers," Planet wrote in aalong with 36 SuperDoves and nearly 100 other payloads.
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