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Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today released first light images from its Pelican-2 satellite of the Port of Laem Chabang in Eastern Thailand, the primary deep sea port in Thailand. They were taken on March 12, 2025, from an altitude of around 506 km. Pelican-2 launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-12 Rideshare mission on January 14, 2025.
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“We’re super pleased with our Pelican-2 first light imagery. The spacecraft is exceeding expectations and is rising to meet the market needs of our customers,” said Will Marshall, Co-Founder and CEO of Planet. “Our Pelican fleet offers greater capacity, higher resolution, lower latency, and, with NVIDIA’s most powerful chip onboard, Pelican will be able to do AI processing at the edge. This integration of AI-powered solutions with our precise spatial data is a major leap forward, and is an exciting preview of what’s to come for commercial satellite imagery data in the years ahead.”
Pelican-2 joins Pelican-1 (a smallsat platform tech demonstration launched last year ) as part of Planet’s next-generation, high-resolution fleet to support and expand its existing SkySat capabilities. Pelican-2 provides high resolution imagery by leveraging 6 multispectral bands that are optimized for cross-sensor analysis with PlanetScope. Pelican-2 will support Planet’s 50 cm tasked imagery product line and is engineered to produce 40 cm class imagery.
Planet has collaborated with NVIDIA to equip Pelican-2 with the NVIDIA Jetson platform to power on-orbit computing—with the aim of vastly reducing the time between data capture and value for customers. Additional imagery with an increased resolution is expected to be available following the lowering of the spacecraft to its operational altitude and once the spacecraft and the imagery pipelines complete ongoing commissioning and calibration work. Planet plans to launch additional Pelicans this year.
“I’m deeply proud of the Pelican team that made this achievement possible. The data we’re getting back from the early stages of our Pelican-2 satellite proves the technical maturity of this new system, and is a testament to their hard work,” said Brian Lewis, Mission Director, Pelican. “Pelican’s ability to reduce downlink latency while improving our image quality and capabilities will help ensure our customers and partners have a seamless tasking experience and can consistently monitor critical changes happening on the ground. This is just the beginning of the high-resolution imagery we plan to more rapidly provide, and we can’t wait to make these capabilities available for a wide range of use cases – from defense and intelligence monitoring to disaster response and more.”
More information on Pelican-2’s capabilities can be found here.
About Planet Labs PBC
Planet is a leading provider of global, daily satellite imagery and geospatial solutions. Planet is driven by a mission to image the world every day, and make change visible, accessible and actionable. Founded in 2010 by three NASA scientists, Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest Earth observation fleet of imaging satellites. Planet provides mission-critical data, advanced insights, and software solutions to approximately 1,000 customers, comprising the world’s leading agriculture, forestry, intelligence, education and finance companies and government agencies, enabling users to simply and effectively derive unique value from satellite imagery. Planet is a public benefit corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange as PL. To learn more visit www.planet.com and follow us on X (formerly Twitter).
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Pelican-2 First Light imagery taken over the Port of Laem Chabang, Thailand from March 12, 2025. A detailed view of the port shows the fine detail of the ships, containers, and associated infrastructure.
Pelican-2 First Light imagery taken over the Port of Laem Chabang, Thailand from March 12, 2025. The port and its surroundings can be seen in one of Planet’s largest swaths captured to date.
President Donald Trump is citing his authority over diplomatic negotiations as he seeks Supreme Court approval to deport more immigrants to be imprisoned in El Salvador. And he cited protecting national security to justify ending collective bargaining with labor unions across most of the federal government.
JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes over the uninvited guests.
And an executive order Trump signed Thursday night puts Vance in charge of rooting out “improper ideology” at the Smithsonian Institution 's many museums, in his latest move against the pillars of America's civil society — universities, science, the media and the law — that he considers out of step with Republican sensibilities.
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance said that he’s joining his wife on a Friday trip to Greenland, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake. (AP video shot by: David Keyton)
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Vice President JD Vance, his wife and other senior U.S. officials are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them.
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Trump says Rep. Elise Stefanik did him “a big favor” by agreeing to stay in Congress instead of going to the UN.
Trump announced Thursday that he had pulled the New York Republican’s nomination as UN ambassador, saying he was concerned about Republicans’ razor-thin majority in the House.
He said Friday that he didn’t want to risk Democrats possibly winning Florida’s two special elections for the U.S. House next week. He noted all the money the party has spent to flip those seats.
“We don’t want to take any chances. It’s as simple as that. It’s basic politics,” he said.
Asked if Americans should buy their cars now to avoid higher prices from his 25% tariffs, the president suggested they had little reason for concern.
“No, I don’t think so,” Trump said about people pulling forward their auto purchases.
Trump is betting that his tariffs will cause the U.S. economy to boom. But his threats of multiple tariffs, with autos being just the latest example, have caused consumer sentiment to slump as people fear higher prices and fewer job opportunities.
A Musk associate sounded a death knell Friday for most remaining staffers and independent functions of the U.S. Agency for International Development, asserting that “substantially all” USAID positions not required by law would be eliminated.
Jeremy Lewin, a former member of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency teams appointed to senior duties at the agency earlier this month, also asserted that the allows the Trump administration to eliminate the agency’s “independent operation.”
Lewin’s announcement appeared in a notice to USAID staff obtained by The Associated Press.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a separate notice that the administration had formally notified Congress Friday of its plans.
The S&P 500 fell 2% Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 722 points, and the Nasdaq composite fell 2.7%.
Lululemon Athletica had stronger profits last quarter but lost 14.8%, after the sportswear maker warned of slowing revenue growth with shoppers spending less because of concerns about inflation and the economy. It was just the latest in a line of retailers making similar warnings.
Markets could remain shaky worldwide as Trump’s April 2 deadline for more tariffs approaches. Treasury yields also fell despite a worse-than-expected report on inflation.
A report on Friday morning showed all types of U.S. consumers are getting more pessimistic about their future finances, including Republicans, independents and Democrats.
▶ Read more on reactions to Trump’s market-moving decisions
Vance and the second lady entered the mess hall at Pituffik Space Base and used some colorful language to describe the freezing temperatures outside.
“It’s cold as s--t here. Nobody told me,” Vance said, drawing laughs. Temperatures in Greenland were around -5 Fahrenheit.
The vice president said the flight from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to Greenland was beautiful.
“The president is really interested in Arctic security, as you all know,” Vance said. “And it’s only going to get bigger over the coming decades.”
Sen. Patty Murray said the Trump administration and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are putting Americans’ lives in jeopardy.
During a call with the nation’s top former public health officials, the Democratic senator and others warned that nursing home safety, food and drug inspections, and clinical trials and scientific research are all being disrupted and dismantled by the DOGE cuts.
Murray said Americans need to know what’s at stake.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized the department he oversees as an inefficient “sprawling bureaucracy” in a video announcing the restructuring, and faulted its 82,000 workers for a decline in Americans’ health.
“I want to promise you now that we’re going to do more with less,” Kennedy said.
▶ Read more on the impact of cuts at Health and Human Services
Now the billionaire has deleted a social media post in which he had announced plans to hold a rally in Wisconsin to “personally hand over” $2 million to a pair of voters who have already cast their ballots in the state’s hotly contested Supreme Court race.
The post disappeared from Musk’s social media platform, X, about 12 hours after he initially posted it late Thursday night.
Musk had posted that he planned to give $1 million each to two voters at the event on Sunday, just two days before the election that will determine ideological control of the court.
Wisconsin law explicitly prohibits giving anything of value in exchange for a vote.
Their letter to Pam Bondi says the firing of 20 immigration judges in February could add to the strain on backlogged immigration courts.
Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrats on committees overseeing the judicial system, along with over 60 other Democratic lawmakers, said the dismissal of the judges “is particularly baffling, given the immense pressure the immigration courts are under to adjudicate roughly 3.6 million immigration cases.”
Soon after arriving, JD and Usha Vance sat down for lunch with American troops stationed at the Pituffik Space Base for lunch.
Vance told them he’s “really interested in Arctic security.”
“As you all know, it’s a big issue and it’s only going to get bigger over the coming decades,” Vance said.
Following the lunch, Vance was scheduled to receive briefings from military officials and deliver more formal remarks to troops.
The U.S. Agency for International Development contracts with American urban disaster-response teams. Before the Trump cuts to foreign aid, USAID-backed search and rescue teams from Los Angeles County and Fairfax County, Virginia could head off to distant quakes in as few as 24 hours, said Sarah Charles, who oversaw the teams in the Biden administration.
The Trump administration is believed to have cut the commercial-transport contracts that get disaster crews, their dog search teams, and heavy equipment to disasters to pull out survivors and bodies, Charles said.
Now, as Trump faces the first major natural disaster of his second term, “the well-built system that we had … those are in shambles,” Charles said.
▶ Read more about responses to Friday’s earthquake
Friday’s one-day visit is limited to the U.S. Space Force outpost at Pituffik, on the northwest coast of Greenland about 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
The itinerary change removed the risk of potentially violating diplomatic custom by sending a delegation without an official invitation. It also reduces the likelihood that Vance and his wife will cross paths with residents angered by Trump’s announcements.
During his visit, Vance was expected to receive briefings and deliver remarks to U.S. service members, according to the vice president’s office. His delegation includes the national security advisor, Mike Waltz, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, as well as second lady Usha Vance.
▶ Read more about the northernmost US base
Kennedy also pressured Gov. Patrick Morrisey to commit to monthly weight check-ins, and said he’ll be his personal trainer.
“The first time I saw him, I said: You look like you ate Gov. Morrisey,” Kennedy said. That comment drew nervous laughter from the crowd in West Virginia, which this week became the first state to sign a sweeping statewide ban on synthetic dyes in cereals, drinks and candies.
Kennedy and Morrisey also talked about adding more restrictions to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that millions of poor Americans use to buy food.
The U.S. president, in a social media post, called it an “extremely productive call.”
“We agree on many things, and will be meeting immediately after Canada’s upcoming Election to work on elements of Politics, Business, and all other factors, that will end up being great for both the United States of America and Canada,” Trump wrote.
Canadians vote on April 28.
The scholars taken into custody or deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in recent weeks include:
▶ Read more about the detentions and deportations
Their armored vehicle was discovered submerged in 15 feet of water after the soldiers went missing. Teams have been unable to get inside it or pull it out.
U.S. Army Europe and Africa said Friday that cranes, a large-capacity pump and more than 30 tons of gravel have been brought in to help drain the water, dig out the mud and pull out the M88 Hercules. A U.S. Navy dive crew is being brought in, and Polish Armed Forces have volunteered to send equipment and 150 personnel.
The site is “incredibly wet and marshy and doesn’t support the weight of the equipment needed for the recovery of the 70-ton vehicle without significant engineering improvements,” an Army statement said.
The soldiers’ identities have not been released. They’re part of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division.
▶ Read more on the recovery effort in Lithuania
The U.S. sanctions name five people and three companies, accusing them of evading sanctions to support the militant group’s finance team through a Lebanon-based network.
Included are Rashid Qasim al-Bazzal, Mahasin Mahmud Murtada, Fatimah ‘Abdallah Ayyub, Hawra’ ’Abdallah Ayyub, and Jamil Mohamad Khafaja.
Bradley T. Smith, the Treasury Department’s acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Friday that this “underscores Treasury’s determination to expose and disrupt the schemes that fund” Hezbollah.
The chair of the Democratic National Committee will spend the weekend in Florida’s 6th congressional district, where the GOP candidate has raised concerns among Republicans ahead of a special election that was supposed to result in a landslide for conservatives.
Ken Martin will be visiting Daytona Beach and St. Augustine for get out the vote events in support of Democrat Josh Weil, who has raised $9 million for his campaign.
That’s nearly ten times what Trump-endorsed Randy Fine has reported raising. Fine told The Associated Press he is spending $600,000 of his own money for his campaign.
The emergency appeal follows a 2-1 vote by a panel of judges that left in place an order by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg temporarily prohibiting deportations of the migrants under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act.
The Justice Department argued that federal courts shouldn’t interfere with sensitive diplomatic negotiations, and that the migrants should make their case in a federal court in Texas, where they are being detained
Trump invoked the 18th century wartime law for the first time since World War II to justify the deportation of hundreds of people under a presidential proclamation calling the Tren de Aragua gang an invading force.
▶ Read more on Trump’s appeal to the Supreme Court over deportations
The Trump administration’s squeeze on higher education underscores how much American colleges depend on the federal government. It provides grants and contracts that have amounted to close to half the total revenue of some research universities, according to an Associated Press analysis.
Trump has been using the funding spigot to seek compliance with his agenda, threatening to cut money for schools the administration has deemed as illegally pushing diversity, equity and inclusion or for not doing enough to combat antisemitism.
The AP analysis looked at federal funding for nearly 100 colleges currently under investigation. For most, around 10% to 13% of their revenue is federal money. That’s not counting federal student aid.
▶ Read more on the AP analysis of federal funding for higher education
The vice president is expected to make the case during his visit to Greenland on Friday that Danish leaders have “spent decades mistreating the Greenlandic people, treating them like second class citizens and allowing infrastructure on the island to fall into disrepair, according to a senior White House official.
He’ll deliver the message during an hourslong visit as Trump continues to say he intends for the U.S. to take control of the icy, mineral-rich island where American forces already have a strategic base.
The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity to preview the vice president’s message, added that Vance will emphasize the importance of bolstering Artic security in places like Pituffik Space Base, where American troops are based.
Vance is expected to meet with U.S. troops on Pituffik Space Base, receive a briefing and deliver a speech during a quick visit, a day after Greenlandic lawmakers agreed to form a new government together to resist Trump’s efforts to annex the Arctic island.
“As the Vice President has said, previous U.S. leaders have neglected Arctic security, while Greenland’s Danish rulers have neglected their security obligations to the island,” said Taylor Van Kirk, the vice president’s press secretary. “The security of Greenland is critical in ensuring the security of the rest of the world, and the Vice President looks forward to learning more about the island.”
Usha Vance had announced she would visit the island with one of her children and attend a dogsled race as well as other cultural events. Vance then announced he was tagging along with his wife and the itinerary changed.
▶ Read more on Vance’s trip to Greenland
The organization’s president, Alexis McGill Johnson, slammed efforts to eliminate Medicaid funding for its health care services as she announced a Wednesday rally in Washington, D.C. ahead of the Supreme Court hearing a case in April that could strip its funding in South Carolina.
“Lawmakers want to impose their beliefs on everyone else, this time by trying to dictate where patients get their health care,” she said.
Planned Parenthood provides a wide range of services besides abortion, providing contraceptives, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, and cancer screening and prevention procedures, especially for low-income patients.
“That care is under vehement, targeted attacks,” Johnson said.
Americans are less likely to see Canada and the U.S. as close allies than they were two years ago, the latest indication that Trump’s tariff threats and talk of taking over the neighboring ally are souring a critical economic and military relationship.
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests that about half of Democrats see Canada and the U.S. as close allies now, down from 7 in 10 before Trump’s return. Among Republicans, this dropped from 55% to 44%.
Very few see the U.S. and Canada as outright “enemies.” Almost no Americans see either Russia or China as a close ally.
“He’s turning everybody against us,” bemoaned Lynn Huster, a Democrat in York, Pennsylvania.
Shaya Scher, a Republican in New Jersey, said “he’s just doing it to make them freak out so they can get a deal.”
▶ Read more about the AP-NORC poll on Trump and America’s allies
An inflation gauge closely watched by the Federal Reserve remained high last month even before the impact of most tariffs has been felt.
Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that consumer prices increased 2.5% in February from a year earlier, matching January’s annual pace. Excluding volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.8% compared with a year ago, higher than January’s figure of 2.7%. Economists watch core prices as a better guide of where inflation is headed.
Inflation remains a top economic concern for most Americans, even as it has fallen sharply from its 2022 peak. Trump rode dissatisfaction with higher prices to the presidency and promised to quickly bring down inflation, but the yearly rate is higher now than during the Biden administration in September, when it briefly touched 2.1%.
▶ Read more on the latest U.S. inflation numbers
Chinese anti-monopoly authorities will review a Hong Kong-based conglomerate’s tentative deal to sell its port assets at the Panama Canal to a consortium that includes U.S. investment firm BlackRock Inc.
That’s according to a state-backed media outlet Friday in the latest sign of Beijing’s disapproval over the sale.
China’s Hong Kong affairs offices have posted scathing commentaries over the deal by CK Hutchison Holdings, which is controlled by the family of Li Ka-shing, the city’s richest man.
Several Hong Kong media outlets quoted anonymous sources Friday saying the conglomerate would not sign the definitive documentation next Wednesday, as was expected in a timeline released by Hutchison in early March. The South China Morning Post newspaper reported that it understood next Wednesday was not a real deadline.
The 2026 Florida governor’s race is already heating up as Rep. Byron Donalds — backed by President Donald Trump — opens his campaign Friday evening with a hometown rally in Bonita Springs.
The event at the Sugarshack venue comes a month after Donalds officially announced his run to succeed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose term is expiring.
DeSantis hinted previously that his wife, Casey DeSantis, would be a worthy candidate to continue his administration’s legacy. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz said in January that too he was considering a run.
▶ Read more on Republicans running to succeed Gov. DeSantis in Florida
The billionaire entrepreneur is returning to the campaign trail for the first time since helping to elect Trump.
He posted on X overnight that he would be holding an event in Wisconsin on Sunday night. The battleground state is holding a pivotal Supreme Court race, which will determine whether liberals maintain their 4-3 majority.
“This is super important,” Musk wrote. He also said he’ll hand out two $1 million checks to voters, part of a sweepstakes he’s used to generate interest.
Andrew Romeo, a spokesperson for Musk’s political action committee, declined to say Friday whether the two would include the $1 million Musk previously said was going to a voter in Green Bay.
▶ Read more on Musk’s influence campaign in Wisconsin
Trump is moving to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government, citing authority granted him under a 1978 law.
The order, signed without public fanfare and announced late Thursday, appears to touch most of the federal government. Affected agencies include the Departments of State, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Health and Human Services, Treasury, Justice and Commerce and the part of Homeland Security responsible for border security.
Police and firefighters, the order says, are an exception.
Trump said the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 gives him the authority to end collective bargaining with federal unions in these agencies because of their role in safeguarding national security.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers, said late Thursday that it is “preparing immediate legal action and will fight relentlessly to protect our rights, our members, and all working Americans from these unprecedented attacks.”
▶ Read more about Trump’s order on collective bargaining
The Trump administration on Thursday opened investigations into the admissions policies at Stanford University and three campuses within the University of California system, including UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine.
The Department of Justice said it’s investigating whether the schools’ policies comply with the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended affirmative action in college admissions.
Stanford said it took immediate steps in 2023 to ensure its admissions process complied with the law. The school said it had not been told specifically why it was being investigated.
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has attempted to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs at colleges and elsewhere.
▶ Read more about the anti-DEI investigation
Trump revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology,” the latest step in a broadside against culture he deems too liberal.
It's the Republican president’s latest salvo against cultural pillars of society, such as universities and art, that he considers out of step with conservative sensibilities.
The president said there’s been a “concerted and widespread” effort to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”
The order puts Vice President JD Vance in charge of an effort to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo. It specifically names the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The executive order also hints at the return of Confederate statues and monuments, many of which were taken down or replaced around the country after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, which is detested by Trump and other conservatives.
The order also calls for improvements to Independence Hall in Philadelphia by July 4, 2026, in time for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
▶ Read more about Trump’s executive order on the Smithsonian
As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
FILE - F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet takes off from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, also known as the 'IKE', in the south Red Sea, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
A digital bill board flashes a tariffs message in Kennedy Township, Pa., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
New Toyota vehicles are stored at the Toyota Logistics Service Inc., their most significant vehicle imports processing facility in North America, at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt walks up to the podium to speak with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2025.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
