February 24, 2023 marked the one year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Throughout the conflict, commercial satellite imagery has played a crucial part in bringing transparency about what’s happening on the ground. The Maxar News Bureau has helped media outlets tell a more accurate story of the war, providing valuable context to events on the ground and helping to combat disinformation. The most recent example is a new documentary which is being shown worldwide on networks including National Geographic and Channel 4 in the UK. The documentary chronicles the first year of the war, using satellite imagery as a starting point to dive deeper into key moments throughout the conflict.
Meet Sarah McPeak, Senior Technical Specialist at Maxar, who recently received the Edwin H. Land Industry Award at the 2023 INSA Achievement Awards Ceremony. Sarah was selected for her “exceptional technical proficiency, demonstrated leadership, and inspiring work ethic” supporting national security.
We are pleased to announce an agreement with Umbra that will provide us with dedicated capacity from satellites in Umbra’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery constellation, making that data available in our portfolio of Earth Intelligence products and services. “Maxar and Umbra are breaking new ground for the geospatial intelligence industry with this multisource offering—though optical and SAR imagery are highly complementary, collection management across these sources has historically been siloed.” - Dan Jablonsky, Maxar’s President and Chief Executive Officer
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded us a contract worth up to $192M over 5 years to provide U.S. allies and partners with commercial imagery services consisting of high-resolution electro-optical, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and 3D data products.
Congratulations to our customer, Agilysis, for winning the 2022 Prince Michael International Road Safety Award, for outstanding achievement and innovations in road safety worldwide. This award is given out by His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent, a member of the British royal family, and gives public recognition to the most outstanding examples of international road safety initiatives. | Learn more about Agilysis’ winning solution that leverages our Analysis-Ready Data to extract 13 road attributes – including vehicle speed, traffic flow and road features.
The World Wildlife Fund and British Antarctic Survey have teamed up with Maxar to recruit citizen scientists to assist in conservation efforts of Atlantic and Laptev walrus populations. The project is called Walrus from Space and has two phases: identifying Maxar satellite images that contain walruses (Phase I) and then count the walruses (Phase II). Learn how you can become a walrus detective!
Last month, we opened a new direct primary care clinic in Sunnyvale, California, which will provide near-site healthcare services for our employees in our Palo Alto, San Jose and Mountain View offices. The clinic, which will be operated by Everside Health, a direct primary care partner, represents another major step forward in our direct primary care journey and our commitment to providing improved healthcare access and affordability to our employees.
We’re pleased to announce new contract awards from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The first award is a one-year Period of Performance contract worth up to $22.5 million with $11.3 million initially funded under NGA’s Janus Geography program. Under the second award, worth up to $13.3 million, we will provide NGA’s Foundation Program with a modern, enhanced application programming interface capable of querying, discovering and downloading Maxar products derived from the company’s 125-petabyte high-resolution commercial imagery archive.
Maxar President and CEO Daniel Jablonsky has been selected to serve on the National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group (UAG). Members of the UAG will serve the current administration’s efforts to maintain a robust and responsible U.S. space enterprise and preserve space for current and future generations.
We’re partnering with NASA’s Glenn Research Center to design and build the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), the foundational component of Gateway. PPE will provide Gateway with power and allow it to maintain its unique orbit around the Moon. How does PPE work? Learn more about this program.
