Vantor inks $2.3M deal to provide images of space objects to intelligence agenc

WESTMINSTER — Vantor, the satellite-imagery firm previously called Maxar Intelligence, said it has recently inked a $2.3 million contract to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and other United States government agencies with “near real-time orbital intelligence of high-interest objects in space.”

Chinese imaging satellites are examples of the sorts of objects Vantor could monitor for the NGA.

“In a contested domain like space, awareness is everything,” Vantor executive vice president Susanne Hake said in a prepared statement. “Still, it’s the one domain where exquisite visual intelligence is extremely hard to come by, creating literal and figurative blind spots. Our NEI capabilities are one of the few technologies that can provide high-resolution visual intelligence of objects in space, providing intelligence analysts and decisionmakers with a deeper understanding of the behavior and intent of high-interest space objects—a decisive edge in an increasingly complex environment.”

Maxar Technologies Inc. was cleaved into two business units in 2023 on the heels of its $6.4 billion acquisition by Boston-based private-equity firm Advent International. Maxar Intelligence remained based in Westminster, while Maxar Space Infrastructure decamped for Silicon Valley. 

Maxar Intelligence announced last year that it has rebranded the division as Vantor, a reflection of its evolution “from a satellite imagery provider into an end-to-end spatial intelligence company.”

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