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SSL established an Additive Center of Excellence near its Palo Alto, California headquarters six years ago.
Maxar is competing as a team with Thales Alenia Space against Airbus to build an estimated $3,000,000,000 worth of small telecommunications satellites for Canadian operator Telesat.
SSL’s geostationary satellite business was down 31 percent year-over-year and materially dragged down Space Systems revenue.
SSL lost a contract with Israeli satellite operator Spacecom to build the Amos-8 satellite, leaving SSL with one new satellite order 2018, BSAT-4B for Japanese operator BSAT.
Maxar could see 4 to 5 percent revenue growth next year if the company excludes the geostationary satellite business with significantly negative profit margins.
Maxar is one of three companies selected by NASA in September for a small satellite development contract worth up to $750,000,000.
Maxar’s year-to-date Space Systems revenue was $886,000,000 for the first nine months, a decline of 10 percent compared to the same period in 2017.
Maxar’s Space Systems division reported $263,000,000 in revenue for the three months ending 2018-09-30, a decline of 12 percent year-over-year.
Space Systems Loral is the manufacturer of Jupiter-3 and is downsizing and potentially closing its geostationary satellite production business, posing risks for the Jupiter-3 program.
The Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies team is competing against Airbus for a 2019 Telesat contract estimated to be worth $3,000,000,000.
The Ocean Cleanup is working with Airbus Defence and Space and Maxar Technologies to evaluate electro-optical and radar satellite data for monitoring the project.
Andrew Huneycutt is a representative from Radiant Solutions, a Maxar-owned company specializing in geospatial and open source intelligence.
Radiant analysts utilized DigitalGlobe's satellite imagery and the Human Landscape product to assess demographics, infrastructure, and vulnerabilities in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
MDA and DigitalGlobe combined for $2,400,000,000 to form Maxar Technologies in October of the prior year.
The nine firms awarded $1,000,000 study contracts for Space Sensor Layer concept designs are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, Maxar Technologies, Draper Laboratories, Leidos, Millennium Space, and Boeing.
Maxar Technologies expects to complete its transition to a U.S.-incorporated company in January to improve its ability to compete for U.S. government contracts.
Maxar Technologies’ SSL, Sierra Nevada Corp., and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems were selected to compete for future small satellite development contracts that could be worth up to $750,000,000.
Maxar estimated that selling SSL’s current GEO facilities in Palo Alto, California could net $150–200 million.
Telesat expected a selection between the Airbus and Maxar/Thales Alenia Space designs by spring 2019.
SSL’s loss of the Amos-8 contract is a setback to the Palo Alto, California-based company’s geostationary satellite manufacturing business that parent company Maxar Technologies is considering selling, partnering off, or closing.