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Telesat is currently choosing between two bids to build the Telesat LEO constellation after the separation of Maxar and Thales Alenia Space.
Maxar Technologies will begin integrating Earth-imaging sensors built by Raytheon Intelligence & Space with WorldView Legion satellites this summer despite challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Once WorldView Legion sensors are delivered in summer 2020, Maxar plans to begin integrating them with satellites at a rate of about one satellite per month.
In 2018 NASA planned to purchase Earth observation data from Maxar Technologies, Planet and Spire as part of a pilot program to evaluate commercial data utility.
Maxar won the largest individual NOAA study contract worth nearly $1,000,000.
Maxar’s 1300-series satellite bus is used for geostationary missions and will be the basis for the satellite intended to carry SunRISE.
PSN launched the communications satellite PSN-6, built by Maxar Technologies, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in February 2019.
In a 2020-03-20 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Maxar treated the 2020-03-16 Santa Clara County stay-home order as a force majeure event for its Space Infrastructure business in that county.
Maxar initially closed its Palo Alto and San Jose facilities after the 2020-03-16 Santa Clara County order but reopened them two days later after determining the company was exempt from the county rule.
Maxar activated its standing pandemic crisis response plan on 2020-03-23 and kept all locations open with limited personnel working onsite for essential operations.
Maxar Technologies is building Intelsat-40e under a contract first announced in November and formalized in February.
Maxar Technologies was selected to build a servicer for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency but relinquished the program in early 2019.
DARPA selected SSL as its commercial partner for the RSGS program in February 2017 over competitor Orbital ATK.
Telesat planned a 300-satellite LEO constellation and was evaluating manufacturers including Maxar Technologies, Thales Alenia Space, and Airbus Defence and Space.
EchoStar executives continue to evaluate ways to add capacity while awaiting the launch of Jupiter-3, a half-terabit satellite Maxar Technologies is building for a 2021 launch.
Maxar expected industry GEO satellite orders near the top end of the 10–15 range in 2020.
Intelsat is budgeting for five new satellites through 2022, including the already-ordered Galaxy-30 being built by Northrop Grumman and the Intelsat-40e under construction at Maxar Technologies.
Intelsat-40e was ordered from Maxar Technologies to serve as a partial replacement for Intelsat-29e.
Walter Scott, Maxar Technologies executive vice president, remarked that his company prefers to talk less and do more.
Israel Aerospace Industries nearly shut down its geostationary satellite communications production line in 2018 after Spacecom chose to order the Amos-8 satellite from Space Systems Loral (now Maxar Technologies).