On March 25, 2026, at an altitude of 500 kilometers above Alice Springs, Australia, the Pelican-4 spacecraft operated by Planet Labs captured an airport scene and executed onboard artificial intelligence object detection using an embedded NVIDIA Jetson Orin processor to identify parked aircraft within moments of shutter closure. Seven months later, on October 30, 2026, Google Research reported that its prototype satellite built with Planet Labs …
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