Maxar Intelligence demonstrates its Raptor software that can guide drones through remote regions where there is no GPS signal, like this Polar Circle demonstration. (Credit: Maxar) ...

Ukraine no longer has access to satellite images from the American aerospace company Maxar Technologies ... which "is the primary portal for access to US government-purchased commercial imagery." ...

This prompted the latest innovation from Maxar Intelligence, a drone-guiding technology that does not rely on satellite signals from space. Now, Maxar, a global satellite imagery and geospatial ...

for example, in Bucha and Mariupol. In 2023, Maxar Technologies showed villages in the Donetsk region after months of Russian massive strikes.

Raptor vision-based software products use Maxar’s unique global 3D data to deliver a breakthrough terrain-based positioning system for drone navigation and sensemaking in GPS-denied environments ...