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Maxar Technologies, taken private by Advent International in 2023 for $6.4 billion, split in 2025 into Vantor for geospatial analytics and a separate satellite-manufacturing company, Lanteris Space.
ACTIVESpatial intelligence and Earth imagery company, formerly Maxar Intelligence, renamed Vantor in October 2025. Maxar was taken private by Advent International in a $6.4 billion deal in 2023 and later split into Vantor and Lanteris Space Systems. Operates the WorldView Legion satellite constellation.
Spatial intelligence and Earth imagery company, formerly Maxar Intelligence, renamed Vantor in October 2025. Maxar was taken private by Advent International in a $6.4 billion deal in 2023 and later split into Vantor and Lanteris Space Systems. Operates the WorldView Legion satellite constellation.
Not ranked: Data in 1 pillar; at least 2 are needed to rank.
2 of 7 inputs measured · Insufficient data · 25% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Headcount, Market value, Reported revenue
Not measured: Capital raised (24 months)
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
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Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO
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No private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
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Compiled Oct 14, 2026 from 6 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Space federal awards
3 awards, $9.4M obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 24, 2026. Awarded Jul 21, 2015 to Nov 30, 2021; most from DoD (2 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 24, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Nov 30, 2021
Latest space award
$4.9M from DoD
SATELLITE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SATSAR) AND ELECTRO-OPTICAL (EO)DATA
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Nov 30, 2021
Latest sourced round
Acquisition: $6.40B
Lead recorded as Advent International
Source: Maxar Technologies (press release via SpaceNews)
Announced Dec 16, 2022
Satellites owned or operated
6 in orbit of 6 launched
Latest: WorldView Legion 5
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as owner or operator. "In orbit" is GCAT status O. Counted under GCAT organisation codes MAXARD, MAXARI, VANTOR. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Feb 4, 2025
Department of Defense
2 space awards, $9.1M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Nov 30, 2021
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
1 space award, $298K obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Jul 21, 2015
Maxar Space Infrastructure
Built 6 of its satellites (latest WorldView Legion 5)
GCAT satellite catalogue, Feb 4, 2025
Satellite data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0.
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 14). Vantor: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/maxar-technologies
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Vantor: Company dossier." Data as of October 14, 2026. Accessed October 14, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/maxar-technologies.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_vantor_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Vantor}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/maxar-technologies}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/maxar-technologies},
urldate = {2026-10-14},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-14; each fact links its primary source}
}Advent International
Recorded as lead of Acquisition (Dec 16, 2022)
Maxar Technologies (press release via SpaceNews), Dec 16, 2022
BCI
Took part in Acquisition (Dec 16, 2022)
Maxar Technologies (press release via SpaceNews), Dec 16, 2022