A photo from nearly 1.5 billion kilometers: satellite images Saturn
Vantor announced a picture of Saturn taken by its satellite from Earth orbit. According to the company, the image was captured from a distance of nearly 1.5 billion kilometers.
Satellite captures image of Saturn from nearly 1.5 billion kilometers away
The company, formerly known as Maxar Intelligence, published this image on the social network X. The image depicts Saturn and the stars visible in the sky around it.
Vantor is developing the WorldView Space direction. Its task consists of taking pictures not of the Earth's surface, but of objects in space. The company's devices have also demonstrated the ability to capture other satellites from orbit.
In particular, in December 2025, the WorldView-3 device photographed a malfunctioning Starlink satellite from a distance of 240 kilometers.
And in April 2026, the WorldView Legion 4 satellite captured the Hubble Space Telescope from a distance of approximately 61.8 kilometers. Because one pixel corresponds to roughly four centimeters in the image, the telescope's cylindrical body, shiny thermal insulation cover, deployed solar panels, and the open optical aperture at the front were visible.
According to Vantor, seven of the company's devices can capture objects located in orbits at an altitude of 200–1000 kilometers. The highest image resolution announced for such observations reaches up to 2.5 centimeters. This metric applies to the ability to image objects in orbit from a close distance, not to the image of Saturn.
The new image of Saturn, meanwhile, demonstrated that the company's satellites can also observe much more distant celestial bodies.