Maxar has said it plans to use expertise gained through its SSL satellite manufacturing subsidiary to expand its government and commercial operations, including building NASA spacecraft, hosting payloads and possibly selling satellites to the US Defense Department. Mostly, we are pushing the envelope on temporal resolution. NASA has already chosen the space technology company to develop the power and propulsion section for its lunar Gateway project, and its pollution monitoring sensor will be taken into orbit on a Maxar satellite. The firm plans to launch its next-generation WorldView Legion satellite constellation in 2021. “Space is an incredibly exciting place right now, with new technologies being developed all the time,” says Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal, which recently announced that it would invest $100 million in SpaceX.
Maxar has said it plans to use expertise gained through its SSL satellite manufacturing subsidiary to expand its government and commercial operations, including building NASA spacecraft, hosting payloads and possibly selling satellites to the US Defense Department. NASA has already chosen the space technology company to develop the power and propulsion section for its lunar Gateway project, and its pollution monitoring sensor will be taken into orbit on a Maxar satellite. The firm plans to launch its next-generation WorldView Legion satellite constellation in 2021. “Space is an incredibly exciting place right now, with new technologies being developed all the time,” says Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal, which recently announced that it would invest $100 million in SpaceX.