{"id":56793,"date":"2021-08-25T01:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T17:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/siriusxm-awards-maxar-another-satellite-build-contract-for-sx-10\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T01:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T17:55:15","slug":"siriusxm-awards-maxar-another-satellite-build-contract-for-sx-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/siriusxm-awards-maxar-another-satellite-build-contract-for-sx-10\/","title":{"rendered":"SiriusXM Awards Maxar Another Satellite Build Contract for SX-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SiriusXM<\/strong> has ordered another Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite from <strong>Maxar Technologies<\/strong>, after the SXM-9 satellite order announced earlier this month. SXM-10, a high-powered digital audio radio satellite, will be built on Maxar\u2019s 1300-class platform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Maxar did not give an expected launch date for the satellite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaxar has been manufacturing communications satellites for SiriusXM for decades, and we\u2019re proud to continue this relationship for both SXM-9 and SXM-10,\u201d said Chris Johnson, Maxar\u2019s senior vice president of Space Programs Delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Maxar recently completed in-orbit testing for the SXM-8 satellite, and handed the spacecraft over to SiriusXM. The SXM-8 satellite was launched by <b>SpaceX<\/b> on June 6, 2021. This success follows the failure of SXM-7, which experienced a payload failure after it was launched in December 2020. SiriusXM said at the time that the failure would not impact its operations. Maxar reported a $28 million impact in fourth quarter 2020, including $3 million in costs trying to repair and recover the satellite and a $25 million cumulative adjustment for the satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SiriusXM has ordered another Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite from Maxar Technologies, after the SXM-9 satellite order announced earlier this month. SXM-10, a high-powered digital audio radio satellite, will be built on Maxar\u2019s 1300-class platform.&nbsp; Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Maxar did not give an expected launch date for the satellite.&nbsp; \u201cMaxar has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}