Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of public sector Earth intelligence at Maxar Technologies, said at the GEOINT 2022 event that shareability is a key feature of imagery from commercial satellites, Defense One reported Thursday. The five-time Wash100 Award winner noted that the company will deploy additional satellites designed to take very high-resolution […] More

Maxar Technologies announced on Monday that the company was awarded up to $202 million in mission support contracts with the U.S. government in the first quarter of 2022.  The total of $202 million in government contract awards, valued over a six-year period, includes 27 award wins across nine government agencies. Eight of those agencies are […] More

Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of the public sector Earth intelligence business at Maxar Technologies, said trending global events such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine act as a catalyst for commercial remote sensing satellite operators to provide geospatial intelligence to customers on the ground, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. He told a […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 14, 2022 — Maxar Technologies recorded $1.77 billion in consolidated revenues for the full year ended Dec. 31 and attributed the increase to its Earth intelligence and space infrastructure segments’ financial performance, GovCon Wire reported. “Our performance this year demonstrates that we are executing on our strategic growth plans. We generated […] More

Maxar Technologies and NASA have completed the critical design review phase of a mission intended to demonstrate robotic satellite refueling and in-space manufacturing and assembly. The space agency said Friday its On-orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing 1 or OSAM-1 achieved mission CDR completion in February, less than a year following the CDR milestone for the […] More

Executive Mosaic has inducted Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar Technologies, into the 2022 edition of the Wash100 Award for his leadership in geospatial intelligence and satellite investment. This marks the first time Jablonsky was named among Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of notable government contracting officials and executives. Visit GovCon Wire to read his […] More

Aurora Insight has secured a strategic investment from geospatial intelligence provider Maxar Technologies and will use the capital to advance development of satellite technologies, expand into emerging markets and broaden its product offerings. “By combining Aurora Insight’s spectrum data with Maxar’s high-resolution imagery, AI analytics and 3D capabilities, we can unlock new opportunities to support […] More

Maxar Technologies has booked over $100 million in three agreements that extend the company’s work of delivering satellite imagery to international defense and intelligence customers. The company said Wednesday its Direct Access Program will continue to enable the unnamed clients to download 30 cm-class data from Maxar’s constellation of Earth imaging satellites to their ground […] More

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded Maxar Technologies a $9.3 million contract to further develop and deliver to the agency a pair of robotic arms for in-space assembly activities. Maxar said Monday it will test and provide its approximately six-foot-long robotic arms within a three-year timeline. The arms will run on a single motor with […] More

Maxar Technologies is planning to hold a launch between May 15 and June 13 for the first two of its six WorldView Legion imaging satellites onboard a SpaceX rocket. The upcoming WorldView Legion satellite constellation is meant to provide geospatial intelligence with a 30 cm-class resolution in both polar and mid-inclination orbits, the Westminster, Colorado-based […] More

Maxar Technologies‘ Space Program Delivery team has integrated NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution payload with its host spacecraft to monitor and track air pollution in North America. The TEMPO payload, built by Ball Aerospace and in collaboration with NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, is hosted on the Intelsat 40e geostationary communications satellite and will […] More

Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies and a five-time Wash100 Award winner, said the company has come up with 3D maps of the Earth for government and military customers and plans to address the demand for such maps in commercial markets, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “We’re seeing interest from the […] More