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<h4>2024</h4> <hr> <h3>WorldView Legion launch</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Maxar <a href="https://www.maxar.com/press-releases/maxar-s-third-and-fourth-worldview-legion-satellites-performing-well-after-launch">launches the first four WorldView Legion satellites</a>, which will enhance the company’s constellation by delivering industry-leading resolution and accuracy.</p> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content right" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>2023</h4> <hr> <h3>Maxar Space Systems is created</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Maxar Space Systems stands up as a separate business.</p> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content left" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>2023</h4> <hr> <h3>Maxar Space Systems Launches J3</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Maxar Space Systems launches the world’s largest commercial communications satellite for Hughes Network Systems.</p> </p> </div> </li> <span class="decades">2010<sub>s</span> <li class="content right" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>2019</h4> <hr> <h3>Power and Propulsion Element for NASA’s Artemis program</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Maxar is selected by NASA to develop the <a href="https://spacenews.com/nasa-selects-maxar-to-build-first-gateway-element/" target="_blank">first element of its lunar Gateway</a>, the Power and Propulsion Element.</p> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content left" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>2017</h4> <hr> <h3>Maxar Technologies</h3> <div class="description"> <p>MDA acquires DigitalGlobe and forms Maxar Technologies made up of four business units—MDA, SSL, DigitalGlobe and Radiant Solutions. </p> </div> </li> <li class="content right" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>2017</h4> <hr> <h3>NASA Psyche award</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>SSL is selected to provide a spacecraft platform for a NASA Discovery Mission to explore the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, the first mission to an all-metal world.</p> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content left" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>2016</h4> <hr> <h3>NASA Restore-L award</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>SSL is selected to provide a LEO spacecraft for NASA’s <a href="https://www.satellitetoday.com/innovation/2016/12/12/ssl-tapped-provide-leo-spacecraft-nasa-orbit-servicing-mission/" target="_blank">Restore-L</a> on-orbit servicing mission.</p> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content right" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>2015</h4> <hr> <h3>100 satellites</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>SSL <a href="http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=974589825" target="_blank">launches its 100th 1300-class satellite</a>.</p> </p> </div> </li> <span class="decades">2000<sub>s</span> <li class="content left" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>2005</h4> <hr> <h3>IPSTAR launch</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Space Systems/Loral launches <a href="https://dg-demandgen.s3.amazonaws.com/pdfs/pr20050811.pdf" target="_blank">the world's first true high-throughput satellite</a> designed to provide broadband services throughout 14 countries in the Asia-Pacific region for Shin Satellite Plc of Thailand.</p> </p> </div> </li> <span class="decades">1980<sub>s</span> <li class="content right" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>1989</h4> <hr> <h3>Superbird launch</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Ford Aerospace launches Superbird-A or <a href="https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1989-041A" target="_blank">Superbird-1</a>, its first 1300 satellite for Japan’s Space Communications Corporation </p> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content left" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>1982</h4> <hr> <h3>Insat 1A launch</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>The first 3-axis communications satellite launches, built by Ford Aerospace for the Indian Space Research Organisation</p> </p> </div> </li> <span class="decades">1970<sub>s</span> <li class="content right" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>1977</h4> <hr> <h3>NASA Voyager 1 and 2 launch</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Two NASA exploration spacecrafts with Ford Aerospace-built, high-gain antennas on board <a href="https://blog.maxar.com/space-infrastructure/2019/maxars-deep-history-in-manufacturing-innovative-space-infrastructure?utm_source=history-page&utm_medium=website" target="_blank">successfully launch</a>.</p> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content left" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>1974</h4> <hr> <h3>NASA SMS-1</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>First geostationary meteorologic satellite is <a href="https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/goes-a_sms.htm" target="blank">launched for NASA</a>.</p> </p> </div> </li> <span class="decades">1960<sub>s</span> <li class="content right" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>1965</h4> <hr> <h3>NASA Mission Control Center</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Philco-Ford designs and develops <a href="https://blog.maxar.com/news-events/2019/from-apollo-to-artemis-part-1-maxar-on-the-moon-in-the-1960s?utm_source=history-page&utm_medium=website" target="_blank">NASA facility in Houston for the Gemini and Apollo missions</a>.</p> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content left" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>1961</h4> <hr> <h3>Philco-Ford established</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Ford Motor Company purchases Philco, establishing Philco-Ford, which later becomes Space Systems/Loral in 1990, then SSL, before merging into Maxar.</p> </p> </div> </li> <li class="content right" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>1960</h4> <hr> <h3>Courier 1B</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Philco builds the world’s first active repeater satellite.</p> </p> </div> </li> <span class="decades">1950<sub>s</span> <li class="content left" data-aos="fade-up"> <h4>1957</h4> <hr> <h3>Western Development Laboratories</h3> <div class="description"> <p><p>Western Development Laboratories division of Philco is formed, the first business established that would eventually become Maxar.</p> </p> </div> </li> <div class="clearfix"></div> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="SpacerComponent dark_grey"> <div class="spacer x1_space"></div> </section> <section class="FullcolorCtaComponent white" 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