SiriusXM is a leading audio entertainment company in North America that utilizes satellite technology to deliver its services. As a satellite radio provider, SiriusXM relies on a constellation of high-powered satellites to broadcast music, sports, talk, news, comedy, and entertainment to subscribers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The company partners with manufacturers like Maxar Space Systems to build and maintain its satellite fleet, ensuring continuous and reliable delivery of its audio content to millions of listeners.
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The delivery of SXM-11 and SXM-12 will bring the total number of Maxar-built spacecraft for SiriusXM to 13.
SXM-11, SXM-12, SXM-9, and SXM-10 are intended to enable SiriusXM to innovate and improve service offerings and to extend continuous delivery of audio entertainment content.
SXM-11 and SXM-12 increase the number of spacecraft in development for SiriusXM by Maxar to four, following a 2021 agreement for SXM-9 and SXM-10.
Delivery of SXM-11 and SXM-12 will bring the total number of Maxar-built satellites for SiriusXM to 13.
SXM-7, launched by SpaceX in December 2020, suffered a payload failure shortly after launch and is unusable for SiriusXM’s satellite radio service.
SXM-8, built by Maxar and launched by SpaceX in 2021, is currently SiriusXM’s only third-generation satellite providing radio services in orbit.
SiriusXM’s total group revenues rose 4% to $2,280,000,000 for the same reporting period, supported in part by growth in Pandora.
Most of the Maxar-built satellites for SiriusXM were originally ordered from Space Systems Loral, which in 2012 became part of a company that later became Maxar.
SiriusXM currently operates five satellites with estimated minimum lifetimes ranging from 2024 to 2036 plus two in-orbit spares for broadcasting radio across North America and Canada.
SXM-11 and SXM-12 will be based on Maxar’s 1300-class platform and are part of SiriusXM’s third-generation constellation.
The SiriusXM radio business generated $1,700,000,000 in revenue for the three months to the end of September, a 5% year-on-year increase.
SiriusXM ordered two additional satellites, SXM-11 and SXM-12, from Maxar Technologies on 2022-11-29.
Maxar built SiriusXM’s third-generation satellites, the most recent of which was launched earlier 2021.
Maxar Technologies received an order to build another geostationary communications satellite for SiriusXM.
Maxar Technologies built SiriusXM’s first-generation Sirius satellites launched in 2000 and second-generation Sirius satellites launched in 2009 and 2013.
Maxar Technologies has been building satellites for SiriusXM since 2000.
SXM-8 will extend the health of SiriusXM’s satellite fleet and its satellite-delivered services through at least 2036.
SXM-8 will provide continuous, reliable delivery of SiriusXM audio entertainment and information services to consumers in the United States.
SXM-8 is the ninth high-powered digital audio radio satellite built by Maxar for SiriusXM.
Maxar and SiriusXM employees posed for a photo with the Maxar-built SXM-8 ahead of encapsulation in the fairing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida.