Increasing demands for global connectivity, enhanced national security and advanced space exploration are driving commercial innovation in the space industry. Maxar continues redefining what’s possible in space with proven technology backed by decades of experience.
Maxar combines a pioneering legacy with innovative forward thinking to deliver on the promise of flexible, cost-effective space manufacturing with the reliability we’ve proven for 60 years.
From satellites and spacecraft systems to nimble robotics, we develop the infrastructure and technology that power humanity’s reach beyond Earth.
Learn moreConnect what matters—whether that means manufacturing satellites to power global high-speed data services, providing real-time direct satellite access or enabling craft-to-craft communication within space. Today, more than 2.4 billion people rely on broadcasting services powered by Maxar-built satellites.
Learn moreWith flexible spacecraft, leading modeling software and systems integration expertise, Maxar builds the systems that help you map and monitor Earth.
Learn moreMaxar has been supporting NASA missions since humans first began exploring the cosmos. Today we proudly support a broad range of missions that advance America’s leadership in space.
Maxar is developing the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) for Gateway, a lunar orbiting command module that will support human missions on the moon. As part of the Artemis program, PPE is the highest-power electric propulsion spacecraft ever built and will provide propulsive orbit control to the Gateway, as well as power and critical communications capabilities.
The Perseverance rover, which features the sixth robotic arm built by Maxar, is searching for signs of livable conditions and microbial life from the ancient past. As Perseverance explores, the Maxar-built Sample Handling Assembly robotic arm will manipulate, assess, encapsulate, store and release collected Martian soil and rock samples.
NASA’s Psyche mission will travel to a metal-rich asteroid, offering insight into how planet Earth formed. On a customized Maxar 1300 series featuring Maxar's high-power solar electric propulsion system, the Psyche spacecraft will travel more than 1 billion miles to reach the main asteroid belt, and must be able to operate in significantly diminished sunlight.
The On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (OSAM-1) spacecraft will rendezvous with, grasp, refuel and relocate a government-owned satellite to extend its life. Fitted with a Maxar Space Infrastructure Dexterous Robot (SPIDER) arm, OSAM-1 will also demonstrate on-orbit assembly and manufacturing to validate technology that is critical to future exploration missions, including NASA’s Artemis program.
We design, build, integrate and test solutions for space-based communications, robotics, power and propulsion, Earth observation, exploration and on-orbit servicing and assembly. Our services include mission systems engineering, product design, spacecraft manufacturing, assembly integration and testing.
Maxar spacecraft and components serve a broad range of telecommunications, civil, defense and intelligence missions.
Learn moreMaxar has been driving the development and deployment of technologies for in-space robotic operations for more than two decades.
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Maxar was selected to design and produce a proliferated LEO constellation of 14 spacecraft platforms using the Maxar 300 bus, and associated support for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Tracking Layer contract. Tranche 1 Tracking Layer is part of the initial Missile Warning/Missile Tracking warfighting capability of the National Defense Space Architecture and will provide limited global indications, warning and tracking of conventional and advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.
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