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May is AAPI Heritage Month celebrating the diverse cultures, traditions and histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Here at Maxar, our AAPI Employee Resource Group (ERG) is hosting activities to recognize the month. We spoke with Maxar’s Udayan Damany, Technical Partner for Quality Assurance in our Space Infrastructure segment and a member of the AAPI steering committee, about his role at Maxar and the mission of the AAPI ERG.
We’re excited to welcome over 80 interns to our 2023 internship class! Our intern program immerses students in their fields of interest as well as educates them on a variety of professional development lessons and engagement opportunities with leaders across the organization. Learn more about our internship program.
We sat down with our in-house astronaut, Robert Curbeam, and asked him to share anecdotes from his NASA career, where he logged over 901 hours in space, helped build the International Space Station and set the record for most spacewalks during a single spaceflight. Read our full Q&A with Robert.
We’ve released our 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report. This report details the company’s policies, programs and practices across our ESG priories. Read the full report here.
Maxar’s Jessica Beahn, Vice President and Chief Engineer, Space Infrastructure was recently featured in Via Satellite’s "Celebrating Women in Satellite." Jessica leads our systems and software engineers in a diverse portfolio that spans satellites, robotics, and deep-space engines. Learn more about Jessica and all of the women who have made a difference in the satellite and space industry.
Congratulations to the Maxar team at our Tampa, Florida location for making the 2023 Tampa Bay Times Top Workplaces! This marks the 7th time that the Tampa location has received this honor. Take a more in depth look inside the Tampa office with the Tampa Bay Times. Way to go team!
Happy International Women’s Day! Today we celebrate all women, including Maxar’s very own Abby O’Connell. Abby is a scrum master in our Space business and lead of Maxar’s Women’s Network Employee Resource Group. Learn more about Abby and her role here at Maxar.
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
