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Telesat selected Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies’ Space Systems Loral division on 2018-07-30 to collaborate on the design of its low Earth orbit broadband satellite constellation.
SSL, working with the University of Toronto’s Space Flight Laboratory, built one of two prototype LEO satellites for Canadian fleet operator Telesat that was lost in a November Soyuz launch failure.
Exiting the business of building large telecom GEO satellites, partnering with another satellite manufacturer, and right-sizing GEO operations in Palo Alto, California are the three mitigation strategies Maxar executives considered for SSL.
One of SSL’s 2018 orders was not fully finalized after Spacecom delayed its downpayment on the $112,000,000 Amos-8 satellite following news that the Israeli government may procure a satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries to co-locate with Spacecom’s fleet at 4 degrees West.
SSL has tied for or come in first in winning the largest number of commercial GEO communications satellite orders every year since 2013, according to Bank of Montreal numbers.
Maxar purchased Canadian robotics specialist Neptec for $32,000,000.
Maxar expected satellite operators to order eight to 12 GEO communications satellites in the referenced year, with manufacturers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia contending for bids.
Maxar is building DigitalGlobe’s WorldView Legion constellation of remote-sensing satellites, with the first launch scheduled for 2021 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
SSL won the BSAT-4b and Amos-8 GEO satellite contracts for Japanese operator BSAT and Israeli operator Spacecom, respectively.
Maxar is reviewing strategic alternatives for its GEO communications satellite business to improve its financial performance while continuing operations in US Government, LEO communications, and Earth observation markets.
Thanos Moschopoulos, a Bank of Montreal analyst who attended a June closed-door meeting, wrote that Maxar will decide among the three outcomes for its GEO business by the end of the year.
Telstar-19 Vantage is the first of two SSL-built satellites that SpaceX is launching for Telesat in the year of the launch.
Maxar has a $1,300,000 deal with the UK Space Agency to develop space robotics technology in the United Kingdom.
Maxar Technologies acquired the Neptec Design Group for $32,000,000.
Maxar’s $1,300,000 deal with the UK Space Agency places MDA in a position to lead a European consortium to bid on the first phase of the European Space Agency’s space servicing vehicle robotics program.
Maxar Technologies purchased Neptec on 2018-07-16 for 42 million Canadian dollars (CA$42,000,000 or about $32,000,000).
Maxar plans to start a spacecraft refueling business in 2021.
The CA$42,000,000 acquisition will fold Neptec’s 100 employees into Maxar’s Vancouver, Canada-based MDA division.
Maxar was formed in a $2,400,000,000 deal last fall that merged DigitalGlobe and its Radian Solutions division with MDA and its Space Systems Loral subsidiary.
Maxar paid for Neptec using roughly CA$8,000,000 in cash and CA$34,000,000 of common shares.