The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange on 14 May 2009, selling 14.7 million shares at US$19.00 each to raise US$279 million in capital. On 5 October 2017, Maxar Technologies completed its acquisition of DigitalGlobe.

When did Maxar buy DigitalGlobe?

Maxar acquired U.S.-based satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe Inc for about C$3.1 billion in 2017, in a bid to boost its business supplying high-resolution images to customers such as the U.S. Department of Defense and companies including Facebook Inc and Uber Technologies Inc.

Who owns QuickBird?

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. developed QuickBird, which was the highest resolution commercial satellite at the time, as well as MAXAR’s subsequent WorldView-1, WorldView-2, and WorldView-3 satellites.