Detailed images of the battlefield in Ukraine taken from space and satellite internet beamed to the war's front lines have shaped the year-long conflict — and how the public understands it.
last year, the head of the Space Force General Jay Raymond said the war in Ukraine is the "first war where commercial space capabilities have really played a significant role.""[T]he worldwide attention to the event has been much larger, much wider, and our imagery has been used to help tell a critical story going on at this point," Maxar CEO Dan Jablonsky tells Axios.
Through the release of images of the war in Ukraine, both Maxar and Planet say they aim to increase transparency and accountability. "As the saying goes, 'Sunlight is the best disinfectant for democracies,' and we feel that advances in commercial imagery are helping to provide that sunlight and shepherd in a new era of shared awareness at a scale that we really haven’t seen before in past conflicts," Planet Federal's Robert Cardillo tells Axios.These companies could also be putting their assets at risk through their efforts.
Starlink "was never intended to be weaponized, but the Ukrainians have leveraged it in ways that were unintentional and not part of any agreement," SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell
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