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PLEIADES NEO 3
Very High Resolution Imaging · Airbus
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Airbus's sharpest commercial satellites yet, Pleiades Neo 3 achieves 30 cm native resolution — the finest commercially available optical imagery from space. At this resolution individual people can be distinguished from their shadows. With its twin, it can revisit any point on Earth up to 10 times daily. The boundary between commercial and intelligence-grade imaging has effectively ceased to exist.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 390–391 mi (627–629 km)
- Inclination
- 97.9°
- One orbit
- 97.1 minutes14.8 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 48268
- Int’l designator
- 2021-034A
- Launched
- 2021
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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