SAN FRANCISCO – HawkEye 360 announced the acquisition Dec. 18 of Maxar Intelligence RF Solutions, the business unit formed after Maxar acquired Aurora Insight. Details of the transaction, which was completed Dec. 15, were not disclosed. “The on-orbit assets and expertise of the RF Solutions group from Maxar Intelligence brings […]
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WASHINGTON — Maxar Technologies, a space technology firm that operates imaging satellites and manufactures spacecraft, has reorganized and eliminated executive positions, the company confirmed Sept. 20 The restructuring comes less than five months after Maxar, previously a publicly traded company, was acquired by the private equity firm Advent International in […]
WASHINGTON — Maxar Technologies announced July 24 that its new satellite bus designed for low Earth orbit constellations passed a critical design review. The company will produce 16 of the Maxar 300 series buses for L3Harris Technologies. Each bus is about the width of a conventional oven. These will be […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Maxar Technologies unveiled a platform to simplify and speed up access to high-resolution Earth imagery. The Maxar Geospatial Platform (MGP), demonstrated at the Esri User Conference in San Diego this week, offers access to archival and current imagery online and through an application programming interface. “It revolutionizes […]
Maxar Technologies is set to deliver in early 2024 the first of 16 satellite buses ordered by L3Harris for a military constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) run by the U.S. Space Development Agency. L3Harris is the first customer for Maxar’s newly designed small satellite bus, tailored for the megaconstellation […]
WASHINGTON — The $6.4 billion buyout of Maxar Technologies is complete and the company is now officially private. Its stock ceased trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the company announced May 3. Maxar, based in Westminster, Colorado, operates a fleet of high-resolution imaging satellites and manufacturers satellites in Palo […]
WASHINGTON — After years of delays, Maxar Technologies is preparing for the first launch this summer of its next-generation imaging satellites WorldView Legion. “We’ve got everything we need at this point” to get the first pair of WorldView Legion high-resolution imaging satellites to orbit, the company’s president and CEO Daniel […]
COLORADO SPRINGS — Dish Network said April 18 it has ordered a satellite from Maxar Technologies to expand high-definition broadcast services over North America. The ES XXV satellite is expected to be ready for launch to geostationary orbit (GEO) “within the next few years,” Dish Network spokesperson Ted Wietecha said. […]