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Maxar would own and operate the satellite constellation and leverage much of the same ground infrastructure used for its WorldView Legion remote sensing constellation to supply NOAA with weather data.
Under the geostationary study award, Maxar will flesh out supplying NOAA with Maxar’s commercial geostationary satellite bus, integrating the payload, arranging the launch, and handling payload operations.
Maxar plans to launch the first block of six satellites into its WorldView Legion next-generation Earth imagery constellation in 2021.
Maxar is preparing under a NASA contract to install NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) sensor as a hosted payload on a commercial communications satellite scheduled to travel to geostationary orbit in 2022.
Maxar operates several high-resolution imaging satellites and is developing the WorldView Legion constellation.
Maxar received a contract worth several hundred million dollars to build multiple GEO communications satellites for an undisclosed customer.
Eutelsat is not the customer for the multi-satellite order Maxar announced in May 2020.
Supplier delays and lost productivity attributed to the coronavirus pandemic added $18,000,000 in unexpected costs to Maxar’s late first quarter results.
Maxar attributed most of Space Infrastructure’s $78,000,000 drop in revenue to a sluggish GEO manufacturing market.
Maxar’s Earth Intelligence division reported $271,000,000 in revenue for the first quarter of 2020, a 7% increase over the first quarter of 2019.
Only Maxar, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman build large geostationary communications satellites in the United States.
Maxar’s total backlog stood at $1,680,000,000 when the quarter ended 2020-03-31.
Maxar Technologies received a contract to build multiple geostationary communications satellites for an undisclosed customer in May 2020.
Maxar will defer $33,000,000 in Social Security and pension obligations until at least 2021 under provisions of the CARES Act.
Maxar reported a $48,000,000 net loss on $381,000,000 in total revenue for the first quarter of 2020.
Maxar’s Space Infrastructure division revenue fell to $132,000,000 in the first quarter of 2020, a 37% decline year over year.
A problem surfaced during late-April testing on a nearly completed Maxar satellite program that will require $14,000,000 worth of rework.
SES orders new satellites as soon as they are made public, and no SES satellite order announcement had been issued as of 2020-05-13 following Maxar’s announcement.
The satellites in Maxar’s order are geostationary communications satellites of the 1300 class and are of a type Maxar has built before.
EchoStar ordered a 500 gigabit-per-second Ka-band satellite named Jupiter-3 from Maxar Technologies in 2017.