Maxar Intelligence CEO Dan Smoot recently said that he is prioritizing the rollout of the WorldView Legion satellite constellation, which was supposed to begin launching in 2021. Legion is the next-generation imaging platform of Maxar Technologies, the parent organization of Maxar Intelligence, a division that specializes in satellite imagery. The constellation will comprise six satellites in all, with the first two set for launch in the next few weeks.

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Susanne Hake, general manager of the U.S. government business at Maxar Intelligence, said the company intends to expand this year its network of electro-optical imaging satellites to meet the data requirements of government and commercial customers. According to Hake, Maxar Intelligence intends to triple its capacity to gather 30-centimeter imagery and increase revisit rates to up to 15 times each day by launching two WorldView Legion satellites with a plan to deploy another four spacecraft this year.

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The space systems business of Maxar Technologies is gearing up to deploy the satellites it built to bolster the constellation capacity of Maxar Intelligence. Maxar said Monday two WorldView Legion satellites will launch as early as April from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Maxar Technologies‘ space systems business will continue supporting L3Harris Technologies in the development of missile warning and tracking satellites for the Space Development Agency. For SDA’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer constellation of low-Earth satellites program, Maxar said Thursday it will design and produce 18 Maxar 300 spacecraft platforms and provide associated support.

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Christian Sobczak, former senior program manager at Maxar Technologies, was named director, military programs portfolio lead at the Westminster, Colorado-based space technology company. He brings to the role over a decade of experience in working as a geospatial-intelligence project manager at General Dynamics' information technology business.

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NASA launched the first deep space spacecraft built by Maxar Technologies' space systems business from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on Friday, Oct. 13. Maxar Space Systems created the spacecraft chassis based on the Maxar 1300 series bus.

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Andrea Joyce, a 15-year Lockheed Martin veteran, has joined Westminster, Colorado-based satellite imagery provider Maxar Technologies as vice president of financial planning and analysis. Prior to Maxar, Joyce was business operations director for global security at Lockheed, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her more than a decade career at the Bethesda, Maryland-based defense and aerospace […] More

Andrea Joyce, a 15-year Lockheed Martin veteran, has joined Westminster, Colorado-based satellite imagery provider Maxar Technologies as vice president of financial planning and analysis. Prior to Maxar, Joyce was business operations director for global security at Lockheed. More

Krupal Patel, former global account manager at Amazon Web Services, has joined Maxar Technologies to serve as senior director of national security space business development, according to his LinkedIn post. He brings to the role knowledge in strategy, business development and satellite systems engineering. At AWS, he was a sales leader who handled its business […] More

Krupal Patel, former global account manager at Amazon Web Services, has joined Maxar Technologies to serve as senior director of national security space business development. Patel's career also includes time serving at NetApp, Ball Aerospace and Boeing's satellite systems-focused business arm. More

Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of public sector Earth intelligence at Maxar Technologies, said geospatial data could play a key role in ensuring maritime security in the Indo-Pacific region and the use of technologies such as space-based surveillance sensors, artificial intelligence and machine learning could help improve maritime domain awareness in the […] More

Maxar Technologies is set to begin production of its new small satellite bus series purchased by L3Harris Technologies for the Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking satellite constellation after completing the critical design review phase of the program. The review validates the structural design, power, attitude control and command and data handling functions of the Maxar 300 […] More