Maxar Technologies has provided the Australian defense department with 3D data suite and satellite imagery meant to inform military decision-making process and enhance situational awareness in support of national defense and intelligence missions. The company said Thursday its 3D Surface Model for the Australian agency is designed to show terrain and surface features and textures […] More

Maxar Technologies has expanded its partnership with Harris-Stowe State University, a historically black college and university in St. Louis, Missouri, as part of the company's continued commitment to the area, where the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is constructing its $1.7 billion modern campus. The company said Wednesday it focuses on building a diverse workforce in St. Louis.

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Maxar Technologies has delivered hardware to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California that will serve as a main component of the Psyche asteroid exploration spacecraft, which the agency expects to launch in August next year. JPL received the Maxar-built solar electric propulsion chassis for the agency's mission to study the metallic asteroid that can be found in a region between Mars and Jupiter, the company said Monday.

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Maxar Technologies announced Monday that the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command awarded the company a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract that is potentially worth $48.3 million for geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) support services. 

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Maxar Technologies and Natick, Massachusetts-based space propulsion technology maker Busek have concluded hot fire tests for a solar electric propulsion component for NASA’s planned lunar Gateway. Busek said Wednesday the fire test validates all parts of the Power and Propulsion Element's SEP subsystem that will help handle the Gateway’s maneuvering, communications and attitude control functions in lunar orbit to support missions like the Artemis program.

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Tony Frazier, executive vice president of Global Field Operations at Maxar Technologies, was announced as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, the most coveted honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), Executive Mosaic announced on Wednesday. This marks the fifth-time that Frazier has received a Wash100 Award in the eight year history of the award. 

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TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2021 — Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) appointed Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), to Iridium's board of directors last week, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday.

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Maxar Technologies’ on-orbit satellite servicing robotic technology has concluded critical design review activities and is slated for delivery to NASA within the first six months of 2022.

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Maxar Technologies has secured a $48.3 million contract to help the U.S. Army gather, analyze and apply geospatial intelligence. The company will use predictive analysis and signature analyst tools to perform these support services, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

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Jim McClelland, vice president of mission architecture at Maxar Technologies, said the small satellite industry is now more willing to take some risks, launch and learn from those launches driven by technological advances in smallsats, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. “It’s been a very exciting transformation of the industry,” he said. “I have to actually, oddly enough, give a lot of credit to the cubesat guys."

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NASA and Maxar Technologies have reviewed programmatic and technical requirements for the power and propulsion element of the agency's planned Gateway base on the moon.

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Raytheon Technologies has adopted a new digital engineering technique to help Maxar Technologies build sensor-integrated imaging satellites scheduled to launch next year.

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