February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
... regarding salvage would be useful from both regulatory and industry perspectives. The in-orbit failure of Maxar Technologies’ WorldView-4 satellite in 2018 resulted in insurance claims of US$183 million. Marriage of convenience? If IOS technology...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... them to historic information at global scales. A really impressive example of this new, ‘golden age’ of EO was a test run by Maxar where the Amazon Web Services ‘ground station as a service’ infrastructure was exploited to access data from one...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... to Quilty Analytics, there were 69 space-related acquisitions/buy-outs totalling $11.7 billion last year. For example, Maxar’s acquisition of Vricon brings 3D data and analytics capabilities to the leading Earth Intelligence supplier, while Raytheon...
01 August 2023
Report predicts continued growth of smallsat market
... additions to its Copernicus program, Starlink's government support, and the National Reconnaissance Office's 10-year contract with Maxar, BlackSky and Planet.
24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
..., Astroscale, AXA XL, Centauri, D-Orbit, Geeks without Frontiers, Hellas-Sat, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Iridium, Loverro Consulting, MAXAR, OneWeb, Planet, Providence Access Company, Secure World Foundation, SES, Space Data Association, Virgin and XTAR...
