The Direct Access Program (DAP) enables direct satellite tasking using your own ground station for real-time imagery acquisition and downlink. DAP supports the most demanding mission requirements with the fastest secure throughput and guaranteed access and data distribution rights to meet your needs.
In 2016, Maxar Intelligence's WorldView-2 imaging satellite was hit by a non-tracked piece of space debris. After the debris incident, the company used one of its other satellites to image WorldView-2 and determine that the damage was minimal. Maxar is proud to offer the same solution to the growing number of commercial and government customers that will benefit from the additional data for satellite operations and resiliency.
Space is increasingly becoming crowded. According to the U.S. Department of Defense's global Space Surveillance Network, more than 15,000 pieces of space debris larger than 4 inches have been tracked. It is also estimated that there are around 200,000 pieces sized between 0.4 and 4 inches, and millions of pieces smaller than 1 cm. According to NASA, much more debris—too small to be tracked, but large enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic missions—exists in the near-Earth space environment. Since both the debris and spacecraft are traveling at extremely high speeds (approximately 15,700 mph in LEO), an impact of even a tiny piece of orbital debris with a spacecraft could create big problems.
Maxar Intelligence was the first company licensed to conduct non-Earth imaging (NEI) for both government and commercial purposes. Satellites in the Maxar constellation can collect and distribute images of space objects across the low Earth orbit (LEO)—the area ranging from 200 kilometers up to 1,000 kilometers in altitude—as well as across medium Earth orbit and geosynchronous orbit.
Through a strategic constellation access agreement with Umbra, Maxar Intelligence has dedicated capacity from satellites in Umbra’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery constellation, enabling Maxar to directly integrate those images into Maxar’s portfolio of Earth intelligence products. This combined offering represents the most advanced multisource geospatial intelligence solution for a wide range of defense, intelligence and commercial applications.
Accessing Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) USG Plus-licensed imagery is quick and easy. Users can choose GEGD's web portal, Google Earth or a variety of Open Geospatial Consortium web services. We handle all the processing, hosting and security, so federal workers and military can focus on reaching goals.
