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Maxar

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commercialFounded 2017
www.maxar.com/
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Michael Kalinski and the four other employees in Swissto12’s U.S. office previously worked for SSL, the Palo Alto satellite manufacturer purchased in 2012 by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, now Maxar Technologies.

Mentioned as: MaxarNarrative GeneralAug 29, 2019Swissto12 raises $18.44 million, works with Tyvak on mini geostationary satellites

TEMPO will be included on a geostationary satellite being built by Maxar for one of Maxar’s customers.

Mentioned as: MaxarTechnical ProductAug 27, 2019Senator seeks change in hosted payload launch policy

Ovzon used its financing to finalize a manufacturing agreement with Maxar Technologies in July 2019 to build Ovzon-3 using a Legion-class satellite platform formerly called the SSL-500.

Mentioned as: MaxarOrg RelationshipAug 24, 2019SpaceX loses Falcon Heavy customer Ovzon to Arianespace

NASA awarded Maxar a $375,000,000 contract in May for the Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element.

Mentioned as: maxarOrg RelationshipAug 19, 2019NASA issues call for proposals for Gateway logistics

NASA selected Maxar Technologies on 2019-07-22 to fly the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) sensor on a commercial communications satellite destined for geostationary orbit using the HoPS contract vehicle.

Mentioned as: MaxarOrg RelationshipAug 8, 2019What happened to the promise of hosted payloads? It’s complicated.

Telesat has worked with Airbus Defence and Space and a consortium formed by Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space on designing the Telesat LEO constellation, with a downselect of a manufacturer expected by the end of the year.

Mentioned as: maxar technologiesTechnical ProductAug 7, 2019Telesat outlines spending plan for Canadian government’s LEO constellation investment

A second Telesat prototype developed by Maxar Technologies and the University of Toronto’s Space Flight Laboratory was lost during the November 2017 Soyuz failure.

Mentioned as: MaxarNarrative GeneralAug 7, 2019Telesat outlines spending plan for Canadian government’s LEO constellation investment

Intelsat-39 was built by Maxar Technologies and will replace the 18-year-old Intelsat-902 satellite with upgraded C- and Ku-band capacity.

Mentioned as: MaxarOrg RelationshipAug 6, 2019Satellites for Intelsat, European lasercomm launch on Arianespace rocket

Spacecom ordered Amos-8 from Maxar Technologies in 2018 but canceled the purchase and the associated SpaceX Falcon 9 launch contract after the Israeli government decided the satellite would be built domestically.

Mentioned as: MaxarOrg RelationshipAug 6, 2019SpaceX launches Amos-17 satellite for Spacecom

MDA Corp., now part of Maxar Technologies, supplied Avanti’s hosted payload on EDRS-C, completing Avanti’s fleet of four spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Maxar TechnologiesOrg RelationshipAug 6, 2019Satellites for Intelsat, European lasercomm launch on Arianespace rocket

Insurers paid a $183,000,000 payout to Maxar Technologies for the January failure of its WorldView-4 imaging satellite.

Mentioned as: MaxarOrg RelationshipAug 1, 2019Space insurer Swiss Re leaves market

Airbus Defence and Space and a consortium led by Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space view the Telesat LEO contract as a $3,000,000,000 opportunity.

Mentioned as: MaxarOrg RelationshipJul 24, 2019Canadian government pledges $521 million for Telesat LEO constellation

Maxar Technologies plans to install the NASA Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution sensor (TEMPO) on a commercial communications satellite scheduled to travel to geostationary orbit in 2022.

Mentioned as: MaxarOrg RelationshipJul 22, 2019Maxar to install NASA pollution sensor on commercial satellite

Maxar Technologies performed studies for NASA on accommodating TEMPO on its 1300 satellite bus and offered that accommodation as the plan for launching TEMPO by 2022.

Mentioned as: MaxarOrg RelationshipJul 22, 2019Maxar to install NASA pollution sensor on commercial satellite

Maxar Technologies plans the first WorldView Legion launch in late 2020 or early 2021.

Mentioned as: MaxarOrg RelationshipJul 12, 2019Airbus to build four imaging satellites for French space agency, mulls 20-plus constellation

Brazilian agencies obtained imagery of the dam collapse from Radarsat-2, a satellite owned and operated by MDA, a Maxar Technologies company.

Mentioned as: maxar technologiesTechnical ProductJun 28, 2019Startup shares disaster imagery, but at what cost?

Ovzon purchased a satellite from Maxar Technologies in December that is projected to weigh around 1,000 kg.

Mentioned as: Maxar TechnologiesOrg RelationshipJun 26, 2019GapSat CEO: Small GEO needed to adapt business plan

PSN launched a 12 Gbps communications satellite built by Maxar Technologies in February aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Mentioned as: MaxarOrg RelationshipJun 26, 2019PSN plans VHTS satellite for 2023

More than 30 spacecraft built by Maxar have used some form of electric propulsion, collectively accumulating over 100,000 hours of thruster operation.

Mentioned as: maxarTechnical ProductJun 20, 2019Ariane 5 lofts satellites for AT&T, Eutelsat

The 3,400-kilogram Eutelsat-7C satellite was built by Maxar Technologies.

Mentioned as: MaxarNarrative GeneralJun 20, 2019Ariane 5 lofts satellites for AT&T, Eutelsat
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