Rob Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer for government systems at Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary, has said he believes intelligence and defense agencies will look to small satellites in the next few years to build up the capabilities of large spacecraft owned and run by the government, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. “We see growth […] More

Maxar Technologies’ Radiant Solutions business has teamed up with Secure Planet and Rank One Computing to launch a multimodal platform designed to provide facial recognition, fingerprint and palm print identification capabilities. The AFIX Tracker FR system uses ROC-developed algorithms for facial recognition and features software, hardware, onsite training and related support in facial detection techniques and […] More

Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary and Thales Alenia Space have forged an alliance with the goal to build a fleet of low-Earth orbit satellites and an end-to-end system for Telesat. The partnership’s offering will include designing satellites, gateways, user terminals, operations centers and ground network, Maxar said Monday. Telesat aims to build a satellite constellation to deliver communications services intended […] More

Richard White, president of SSL Government Systems, said the development of on-orbit servicing technology can help accelerate innovation efforts meant to support future space missions, Geospatial World reported Friday. White added an SSL-designed servicer will work to integrate with government and commercial spacecraft in orbit. NASA awarded the Maxar Technologies subsidiary a five-year, $127 million […] More

Richard White, president of government systems business of Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary, has said he believes on-orbit satellite servicing initiatives could transform the basic principles of how industry and government use and regard satellites, the Via Satellite magazine reported in its August 2018 issue. White mentioned the company’s on-orbit assembly work through the Dragonfly program with NASA […] More

A communications satellite that Maxar Technologies‘ SSL business produced for Telesat has started to conduct post-launch operations. The Telstar 19 VANTAGE satellite deployed its solar arrays on time after launching aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida early Sunday morning, Maxar said Tuesday. On early Tuesday, the satellite fired its main thruster […] More

Richard White, president of SSL‘s government systems business, said in a Geospatial World report published Thursday the actual satellite servicing process can change depending on a client spacecraft’s design, orbit and requirements. White added on-orbit servicing generally covers “rendezvous and gentle capture of the client, completion of servicing tasks using the servicer’s robotic arms and toolkit, and […] More

Radiant Solutions will lead a team composed of at least 25 companies and universities in a bid to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency manage multisource topographic and human geography data. The Maxar Technologies business holds a spot on a potential 10-year, $920 million contract to offer content data management support for NGA’s Janus Geography initiative, the company said Thursday. “We are incredibly […] More

Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary built and provided the transceiver assembly components for a pair of Microwave Ranging Instruments that took off in May as part of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On mission of NASA and the German Research Center for Geosciences. Al Tadros, vice president of SSL’s space infrastructure and civil space, wrote […] More

Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary plans to leverage its work with NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build up its in-orbit satellite servicing business, SpaceNews reported Monday. SSL works with DARPA to build a vehicle designed to repair, inspect, refuel and install payloads into satellites operating in geostationary orbit through the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites […] More

Adam Marks, recently appointed chief strategy officer at Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary, told Via Satellite in an interview published Monday he believes in-orbit satellite servicing could transform the nature of the space infrastructure. “In the near-term, servicing provides satellite operators with the flexibility to delay capex decisions and get more life out of existing spacecraft,” he said. […] More

Tony Frazier, president of Radiant Solutions, has said the company looks at the potential use of geospatial data to support artificial intelligence-based training efforts in the public sector, SpaceNews reported Saturday. He told the publication in an interview increasing the access to public data can help developers create open-source machine learning algorithms designed to recognize […] More