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When DigitalGlobe built its legacy WorldView imaging satellites, they were produced one at a time.
Maxar opened an office in downtown St. Louis in 2019 to support its main customer, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
Saab previously owned 50% of Vricon until Maxar acquired the company.
Maxar had previously projected the WorldView Legion launches would occur in 2021 before postponing the first launch to 2022.
Maxar is seeking to diversify its business and reduce its dependence on U.S. government contracts.
Other core members of the Indian Space Association include Godrej, Hughes India, Azista-BST Aerospace Private Limited, BEL, Centum Electronics, and Maxar India.
Maxar expects to launch all six WorldView Legion imaging satellites in 2022.
Maxar acquired high-resolution 3D mapping company Vricon in 2020.
Maxar Technologies won a $44,000,000 contract option from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to continue performing the G-EGD service until September 2022.
Commercial imaging resolution has reached under 0.3 m with Airbus and Maxar leading the optical sector and ICEYE, Capella, and Umbra leading the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sector, all targeting the defense market.
The EnhancedView contract originated in 2010 when NGA selected DigitalGlobe and GeoEye as imagery providers.
Maxar is investing $600,000,000 in the next-generation WorldView Legion imaging constellation.
Maxar Technologies was awarded an Option Year 2 contract renewal by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program.
The EOCL procurement is structured to buy products from multiple vendors and move beyond the single-supplier arrangement established by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency with DigitalGlobe.
Airbus and Maxar are leading in the under 30cm optical resolution market, while ICEYE, Capella, and Umbra lead in the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) market.
In 2019 the NRO awarded study contracts to Maxar, Planet, and BlackSky to gain access to the companies’ business plans, finances, and projected constellation capacity.
With the G-EGD award, Maxar will provide those users with geospatial data from other industry providers in addition to Maxar imagery.
The NRO pays Maxar $300,000,000 a year for access to WorldView-1, WorldView-2, WorldView-3, GeoEye-1, and Maxar’s image archive.
Maxar intends to operate two Legion satellites in sun-synchronous orbits and four in mid-inclination orbits.
Maxar will continue to provide more than 400,000 U.S. government users with unclassified online and offline on-demand access to high-resolution commercial imagery from Maxar and geospatial data from other industry providers.