NASA and Maxar Technologies have reviewed programmatic and technical requirements for the power and propulsion element of the agency's planned Gateway base on the moon.
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Raytheon Technologies Uses Digital Engineering to Help Maxar Accelerate Earth-Imaging Satellite Production
Raytheon Technologies has adopted a new digital engineering technique to help Maxar Technologies build sensor-integrated imaging satellites scheduled to launch next year.
Read More »Tony Frazier Welcomes Maxar’s New Strategic Growth VP
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 12, 2020 — Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies and four-time Wash100 awardee, recently announced the appointment of Jon Love, former head of public sector partner development at Microsoft, as the space technology company's VP of strategic growth, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 4.
Read More »Maxar Geospatial Service Exceeds 200 Customers
Maxar Technologies has reported more than 200 subscribers for its cloud-based geospatial service that provides access to high-resolution satellite imagery for monitoring and mapping activities.
Read More »Tony Frazier on Maxar’s Use of Commercial Tech to Support National Security Missions
Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies and a four-time Wash100 awardee, said the company uses commercial technology advancements to help the U.S. government manage national security operations and address various threats from near peer competitors, the ongoing global health crisis and extreme weather events.
Read More »Maxar Secures Army Imagery Ground Tech Delivery Contract; Tony Frazier Quoted
Maxar Technologies has been awarded a potential eight-year, $49 million, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Army Geospatial Center to deliver portable, direct-downlink tactical ground systems that will provide critical geospatial intelligence to users in remote locations. The contract includes two initial task orders worth a combined $8 million.
Read More »Maxar Technologies CTO Walter Scott on Vricon Acquisition
Walter Scott, chief technology officer of Maxar Technologies and a previous Wash100 awardee, said the company’s acquisition of 3D data and analytics company Vricon “enables a whole range of use cases,” Inside Defense reported Monday.
Read More »Jim McClelland Named Maxar Mission Architecture Lead; Walter Scott Quoted
Maxar Technologies has appointed Jim McClelland as head of the company’s mission architecture function, reporting to Maxar chief technology officer (CTO) Dr. Walter Scott, Maxar reported on Thursday.
Read More »Travis Hartman: Maxar-AWS Partnership Helps NOAA Build Cloud-Based Computing Tech
Maxar Technologies collaborated with Amazon Web Services to build a cloud-based computing technology designed to accelerate processing of global weather data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SiliconANGLE reported Tuesday. “We knew NOAA had capabilities of weather prediction models in traditional on-premises, big beefy high-performance supercomputers, but we wanted to do it in the cloud; we wanted to use AWS as a key partner,” said Travis Hartman, director of analytics and weather at Maxar.
Read More »Northrop’s HALO Module for NASA Lunar Gateway to Launch With Maxar’s PPE
Northrop Grumman has unveiled plans for the central module of NASA’s Lunar Gateway, including the module’s planned launch with Maxar Technologies’ Power and Propulsion Element from a spaceport in Florida by 2023, the NASASpaceflight website reported Friday.
Read More »Maxar Renews $120M in International Defense, Intelligence Contracts; Tony Frazier Quoted
Maxar Technologies has renewed four contracts and expanded a fifth contract with international defense and intelligence customers, with the total of all awards valued at approximately $120 million, for uninterrupted access to its current satellite constellation, the company announced Monday.
Read More »Maxar to Develop Analytics System for DHS; Tony Frazier Quoted
Maxar Technologies has been awarded a five-year, $23 million contract by the Department of the Interior to develop an analytics system to probe the behavior of vehicles in multiple domains at scale and in near-real-time for the Department of Homeland Security, the company announced Monday.
Read More »Intelsat Plans C-Band Spectrum Transition, Places Satellite Orders With Maxar & Northrop
Intelsat has signed a pair of deals to procure four satellites from Maxar Technologies and another two from Northrop Grumman in efforts to meet the Federal Communications Commission deadline for reallocating some C-band spectrum to support 5G network services.
Read More »Maxar to Study Potential for Next WorldView Satellite Class in NOAA Mission
Maxar Technologies has received a six-month, $350K contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to explore the possibility of integrating weather observation sensors with the company's new class of Earth imaging satellites, SpaceNews reported Friday.
Read More »Maxar Books NGA Mission Support Contracts; Tony Frazier Quoted
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 12, 2020 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) received contracts worth $20M combined to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency classify land covers and detect georgraphical area changes, ExecutiveGov reported April 28.
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