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Cesium provided a plug-in for Unreal Engine and for Maxar’s geospatial data to support the simulation.
Umbra and Maxar plan to start offering joint products later 2023.
At the GEOINT 2023 symposium, a large Maxar optical image was displayed at Umbra’s booth and an Umbra SAR image was displayed at Maxar’s booth.
Delivering Jupiter 3 in June 2023 would prevent Maxar from making additional payments to EchoStar under a compensation plan agreed in 2022.
Maxar Technologies experienced production delays that pushed Jupiter 3's original 2021 launch date past 2021.
Maxar is expected to ship Jupiter 3 to EchoStar’s Florida launch site in June 2023.
A smaller version of the Maxar 1300 bus was selected in 2018 by Swedish broadband operator Ovzon.
A U.S. Federal Communications Commission C-band spectrum auction helped Maxar secure an order from Intelsat in 2020 for four geostationary satellites.
Dish Network placed an order for a geostationary satellite bus from Maxar in 2025 to expand its broadcast services over North America.
The satellite bus selected by L3Harris for the SDA Tracking Layer is the smallest bus in Maxar’s product line and is designed for proliferated constellations requiring faster production rates.
Maxar is actively marketing the Maxar 500 bus used on WorldView Legion for remote-sensing applications carrying electro-optical or radar imaging sensor packages.
After the first delivery in early 2024, Maxar plans to produce satellite buses at an approximate rate of two per month.
Three contracts for commercial geostationary communications satellites had been announced as of late April, including two contracts for Astranis and one contract for Maxar.
Maxar unsuccessfully bid in 2021 as a prime contractor for an SDA satellite contract and filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office that led SDA to change its contracting approach to Other Transaction Authority.
Maxar rebranded its buses into three lines: the Maxar 300 series for the smaller bus, the Maxar 500 for the WorldView Legion bus, and the Maxar 1300 line for large geostationary communications buses.
Maxar Technologies secured a contract in early 2023 from Dish Network for a geostationary communications satellite.
The Maxar small bus mass ranges from 250 to 1,000 kg and can support payloads between 200 and about 500 kg.
Maxar Technologies will deliver in early 2024 the first of 16 satellite buses ordered by L3Harris for a U.S. Space Development Agency low Earth orbit military constellation.
Maxar is offering the small satellite bus to other defense contractors competing for Space Development Agency satellite contracts.
SiriusXM purchased two geostationary satellites from Maxar in 2024 to expand its radio broadcasting constellation.