Hours after ThePrint revealed that Maxar had been receiving orders for high-resolution satellite images of Pahalgam, including 10 days before the attack, the company removed the Pakistani firm from its website.
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Did you look up the other partner of Maxar for Pakistan, i.e., Dubai based “Space Imaging Middle East” (SIME) ?
Some of the trivia is intriguing.
SIME is also (primarily) Maxar’s partner in the ME, except for Saudi Arabia.
Maxar has no partner listed for Saudi Arabia. Nor for China. (Though, I have seen a couple of internet pages which list Maxar as being a popular vendor in China.)
SIME began in 1997, as “partner” of one of the progenitors of Maxar. It must have been EarthWatch Inc, which had resulted earlier from a merger by WorldView Imaging Corporation.
EarthWatch became DigitalGlobe in Sept. 2001. (I am unable to catch what seems to be just around the corner of my mind when I look at that calendar month.)
In the meantime, SIME had set up a sister concern in Munich, Germany, which established a relationship with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It began operating a Direct Access Facility (DAF) in one of DLR’s center, for satellite tasking and data downlinking for WorldView satellites.
Was the tasking order placed by/through SIME?
At some point, SIME’s sister concern became “European Space Imaging”, which was latter rebranded as EUSI.
To get even closer to each other, SIME, EUSI, and DigitalGlobe formed a Global WorldView Alliance for providing end-to-end imagery solutions and services.
(Info obtained from the company websites and Wikipedia pages.)
It all made for a pleasant evening of aimless wanderings.
That they removed the information about the Pakistani firm after the original article gained traction, is highly suspicious. Typical warmonger behaviour…sell to the highest bidder, money only matters. Someday, this will come back to bite them in the posterior. I would like to commend the Print for publishing this story and creating awareness about issues like these.
Thank you for this investigation. This is huge and should be picked up by our government.
Soumya, Good find!
Did you look up the other partner of Maxar for Pakistan, i.e., Dubai based “Space Imaging Middle East” (SIME) ?
Some of the trivia is intriguing.
SIME is also (primarily) Maxar’s partner in the ME, except for Saudi Arabia.
Maxar has no partner listed for Saudi Arabia. Nor for China. (Though, I have seen a couple of internet pages which list Maxar as being a popular vendor in China.)
SIME began in 1997, as “partner” of one of the progenitors of Maxar. It must have been EarthWatch Inc, which had resulted earlier from a merger by WorldView Imaging Corporation.
EarthWatch became DigitalGlobe in Sept. 2001. (I am unable to catch what seems to be just around the corner of my mind when I look at that calendar month.)
In the meantime, SIME had set up a sister concern in Munich, Germany, which established a relationship with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It began operating a Direct Access Facility (DAF) in one of DLR’s center, for satellite tasking and data downlinking for WorldView satellites.
Was the tasking order placed by/through SIME?
At some point, SIME’s sister concern became “European Space Imaging”, which was latter rebranded as EUSI.
To get even closer to each other, SIME, EUSI, and DigitalGlobe formed a Global WorldView Alliance for providing end-to-end imagery solutions and services.
(Info obtained from the company websites and Wikipedia pages.)
It all made for a pleasant evening of aimless wanderings.
That they removed the information about the Pakistani firm after the original article gained traction, is highly suspicious. Typical warmonger behaviour…sell to the highest bidder, money only matters. Someday, this will come back to bite them in the posterior. I would like to commend the Print for publishing this story and creating awareness about issues like these.
Great great research and article. THANKYOU SO MUCH @ThePrint, @soumya pillai.