Thursday, July 18, 2024

MAXAR INTELLIGENCE RELEASES FIRST IMAGES FROM ITS NEXT-GENERATION WORLDVIEW LEGION SATELLITES

 


MAXAR INTELLIGENCE RELEASES FIRST IMAGES FROM ITS NEXT-GENERATION WORLDVIEW LEGION SATELLITES

07/18/2024

Westminster, Colo. – July 18, 2024 – Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise geospatial intelligence, today released the first images from its next-generation WorldView Legion satellites, the first two of which were launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on May 2, 2024.  

The high-resolution, 30 cm-class images were collected on July 16, 2024, by one of Maxar’s WorldView Legion satellites on orbit and demonstrate the exceptional capabilities of this state-of-the-art technology. They include detailed images of key urban areas, transportation routes and logistics hubs in San Francisco and Sacramento, California, underscoring the value of high-resolution satellite imagery for precision mapping, site monitoring, geospatial analytics and other important use cases. 

This WorldView Legion image show small details on, and around, San Francisco City Hall, including solar panels on top of the building and lane markings through intersections and streetlamps. The green lanes mark bicycle paths, while the red lanes are dedicated for city transit vehicles. All these details are useful for building foundational maps for government use cases, consumer applications and mobility and logistics planning.This WorldView Legion image shows people playing on soccer fields, with cleanly defined white boundary lines and stadium lights.This WorldView Legion image shows a bulk carrier ship docked in Washington Lake, next to the Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel. You can identify that the ship has two cargo holds open and see the current equipment in use for port operations—examples of important details in site monitoring missions.This WorldView Legion image shows the interchange between Highway 50 and Elvas Freeway, southeast of downtown Sacramento, with vehicles in motion and roadway markings clearly visible.

 

“In today’s increasingly complex world, our customers need access to faster, more timely geospatial insights to support their most critical missions—from precision mapping to site monitoring to space domain awareness,” said Dan Smoot, CEO of Maxar Intelligence. 
“Soon, our WorldView Legion satellites will be collecting vast amounts of imagery, extending our collection capacity advantage for high-resolution imagery and enhancing the revisit rate of our industry-leading constellation. This added capacity will also strengthen our geospatial foundation, helping us build more sophisticated products that unlock the full potential of geospatial data and generate more actionable insights in 2D and 3D.” 
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  • These two satellites are part of a block of six WorldView Legion satellites. 
  • Once on orbit, the six satellites will triple Maxar’s capacity to collect 30 cm-class imagery, enable dawn-to-dusk collection and allow Maxar to image the most rapidly changing areas on Earth as frequently as every 20 to 30 minutes. 
The vast amount of high-resolution imagery collected by these satellites will also enable the company to continue building leading-edge products that deliver faster mission-critical insights: 
The capacity increase will fuel the company’s innovation, providing more near-real time data that allows Maxar to deliver software products that leverage modern artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to extract faster insights from geospatial data. 
The significant increase in high-resolution capacity will further improve the currency and quality of the company’s 2D and 3D data products.  
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Customers using Maxar’s tasking products will have more opportunities to collect imagery of areas of interest throughout the day.  
Maxar continues to progress through the commissioning and calibration process for the first two WorldView Legion satellites and expects both satellites to be supporting customer missions soon. 
  • Maxar expects to launch all six WorldView Legion satellites by the end of 2024.  
Learn more about our WorldView Legion satellites and how they enhance the capabilities of Maxar’s Earth imaging constellation here: https://www.maxar.com/worldview-legion  
About Maxar Intelligence 
Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost effectiveness. 
For more information, visit www.maxar.com. 

Maxar Intelligence unveils first images from next-generation WorldView Legion satellites

Electro-optical imaging satellites with resolution of 30 cm such as Maxar’s WorldView Legion are capable of capturing precise images of small objects and features on the Earth’s surface
Sandra ErwinJuly 18, 2024

Satellite image released July 18, 2024, of San Francisco City Hall. Solar panels are seen on top of the building and lane markings through intersections and streetlamps. Credit: Maxar Technologies


WASHINGTON — Maxar Intelligence, a provider of geospatial intelligence and Earth observation services, on July 18 released the first images from its WorldView Legion satellites. The inaugural pair of these advanced Earth observation satellites were launched on May 2 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

WorldView Legion is Maxar’s latest constellation of high-resolution Earth imaging satellites, designed to increase the company’s imaging capacity and revisit rates. These satellites are capable of collecting 30 cm-class imagery, providing detailed views of the Earth’s surface for a wide range of applications, from defense and intelligence to urban planning and disaster response.

Maxar said the commissioning and calibration process for the first two WorldView Legion satellites is still under way.

“Soon, our WorldView Legion satellites will be collecting vast amounts of imagery, extending our collection capacity advantage for high-resolution imagery and enhancing the revisit rate of our industry-leading constellation,” said Dan Smoot, CEO of Maxar Intelligence.




  • The two satellites currently in orbit are part of a planned constellation of six WorldView Legion. 
  • The company aims to have all six satellites launched an in operation by the end of 2024.

Maxar Intelligence, formed as part of a reorganization of Maxar Technologies, is the primary provider of commercial electro-optical imagery to the U.S. government. 

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