Maxar Intelligence is preparing the fifth and sixth WorldView Legion™ satellites for launch after the two satellites, manufactured by Maxar Space Systems, recently arrived in Florida after a cross-country road trip. They will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into mid-inclination orbit (MIO) as early as next month.
Serving customers with the highest quality satellite imagery
The launch of these two satellites will complete the first block of Maxar’s next-generation WorldView Legion satellites. It will also be a major milestone in Maxar’s efforts to significantly increase its very high-resolution 30 cm-class satellite imagery collection capacity, bolstering its ability to support customer needs for near real-time insights.
These satellites will enter MIO at the opposing 45-degree angle from the WorldView Legion satellites in Launch 2. With four satellites in MIO and six satellites in sun-synchronous orbit, Maxar will be able to revisit some locations on Earth up to 15 times per day and triple our 30 cm-class collection capacity.
With 3.6 million sq km of 30 cm-class collection capacity per day, Maxar will continue to lead the industry by offering customers the highest image quality and geometric accuracy available on the commercial market. In fact, no other provider will have this amount of 30 cm-class capacity available.
Maxar will also be applying its proprietary high-definition (HD) processing technique to WorldView Legion’s 30 cm-class imagery, resulting in more 15 cm HD imagery as a result. This imagery is available through Maxar Geospatial Platform (MGP) Pro as individual images or through our Vivid Advanced basemap , which provides a seamless view of Earth.
More frequent monitoring opportunities
When all six WorldView Legions are operational on orbit, Maxar will offer customers:
- More capacity for mission planning.
- Increased views of key locations for site monitoring and support for emergency response, maritime surveillance and civil government use cases.
- Fresher basemaps and 3D maps for commercial mapmaking and telecommunications planning.
- Enhanced insights extracted on the global scale for informed decision-making.
The Maxar constellation will now make near-real time services become a reality through more collections and faster processing of data, providing even more value to customers.
The launch of these two WorldView Legion satellites will be broadcast on spacex.com and on https://x.com/spacex.
Preparing for launch
Maxar Intelligence’s expanded capacity with WorldView Legion will redefine what’s possible with commercial Earth observation.
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