COLLEGE PARK, MD — May 4, 2026 — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantum
technology company, today announced the commercial launch of Interferometric Synthetic
Aperture Radar (InSAR) capabilities through its space missions line. The offering enables
millimeter-precision ground deformation monitoring with fully automated tasking and data
delivery – enabling customers to detect and track physical change on the Earth’s surface
consistently, at a frequency and scale never previously available from a commercial SAR
provider.
The InSAR solution removes manual coordination and long revisit intervals. Customers set up
repeat collections through an automated tasking platform, and the system handles tasking and
delivery automatically with no intervention required. The result: consistent, high-frequency
intelligence supporting applications across infrastructure and environmental monitoring, energy,
insurance, urban development, and national security.
“This launch expands IonQ’s space mission and sensing capabilities, delivering persistent,
change-monitoring intelligence from space,” said Jordan Shapiro, IonQ President and General
Manager, Quantum Platform. “By combining automated tasking at shorter intervals with
consistent, high-quality data collection, we are enabling customers to monitor physical change
with greater frequency, automation, and confidence.”
Built on the company’s proven SAR constellation, the capability provides a three-day repeat
cycle enabled by unique orbital architecture in both mid-inclination and sun synchronous orbits.
Together this delivers consistent repeatable acquisition geometry, enabling reliable, high
frequency monitoring, more accurate detection of the surface movement over time and
improved separation of vertical and horizontal motion for three-dimensional deformation
analysis.
Performance has already been demonstrated at scale. A 2025 study over Mexico City
measured deformation rates exceeding 70 centimeters per year using 18 acquisitions over a
seven-week period, establishing a new commercial benchmark for urban subsidence
monitoring, and a data density that would have required months to accumulate under
conventional approaches.
By expanding space-based data collection, IonQ is advancing its ability to provide persistent,
actionable intelligence across domains.
About IonQ
IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier –
delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security.
IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of
cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web
Services, AstraZeneca, and NVIDIA achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation
in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In
2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum
computing performance.
Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado,
Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada,
and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud
providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea,
air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever
before. Learn more at IonQ.com.
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