Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies was a publicly traded Earth-imaging and space-systems company formed from the 2017 merger of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) with DigitalGlobe (founded 1992 in Oakland, California). In December 2022 private-equity firm Advent International agreed to take Maxar private in a USD 6.4 billion cash deal that closed in May 2023, after which Advent split the company into two operating units: Maxar Intelligence (imagery and geospatial software in Westminster, Colorado) and Maxar Space Systems (satellite manufacturing in Palo Alto, California). On 1 October 2025 both units rebranded — Maxar Intelligence became Vantor and Maxar Space Systems became Lanteris Space Systems. On 13 January 2026 Intuitive Machines completed the acquisition of Lanteris from Advent for approximately USD 800 million, leaving Vantor as the sole remaining Advent-owned successor of the Maxar brand. The public developer surface for the original Maxar APIs — imagery search, streaming (WMS/WMTS/WFS), tasking, ordering, monitoring, authentication and account services — is now delivered through the Vantor Hub (hub.vantor.com / pro.maxar.com) and the Maxar Geospatial Platform (MGP) SDKs (Python, Java, R). The Maxar Open Data Program continues to publish a public STAC catalog of pre-/post-event high-resolution imagery on AWS Open Data.
APIs
Vantor Hub Authentication API
OAuth-style token service that issues bearer access tokens for use with every other Vantor Hub API (Discovery, Account Services, Streaming). Documented at hub.vantor.com/docs/au...
Vantor Hub Discovery API
Search and discovery API across Vantor's "125+ petabytes of imagery and derivatives" — high-resolution electro-optical imagery from the WorldView and GeoEye constellations, Worl...
Vantor Hub Account Services API
Administrative account-management API for Vantor Hub customers — manage users, roles, organisation entitlements, credit balances and API keys against the Vantor Hub tenant. Docu...
Maxar Geospatial Platform Streaming API
OGC-standards Streaming services exposing Maxar's current and historical imagery as WMS (Web Map Service), WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) and WFS (Web Feature Service) layers — sup...
Maxar Geospatial Platform Ordering API
Order management API for placing, tracking and retrieving deliveries of Maxar archive imagery — supports asynchronous orders against the WorldView / GeoEye / WorldView Legion ar...
Maxar Geospatial Platform Tasking API
Real-time tasking API for commissioning new satellite collections over an area of interest using the Vantor Constellation (WorldView-1/2/3, GeoEye-1 and the six-satellite WorldV...
Maxar Geospatial Platform Monitoring API
Monitoring API for standing watches over user-defined areas of interest — receive notifications when new imagery is collected, when collection windows close, and when analytic d...
Maxar Vivid Basemap API
Vivid is Maxar's cloud-free, color-balanced basemap product — a global mosaic refreshed from the WorldView archive. The Vivid Basemap API exposes the basemap as OGC tile and fea...
Maxar Content Catalog API
Legacy Maxar Content Catalog API — the canonical search index against the WorldView / GeoEye / IKONOS / QuickBird archive. Generated from Maxar's published OpenAPI spec (doc.con...
Maxar Open Data STAC Catalog
Free, public STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog) of pre- and post-event high-resolution Maxar imagery published in support of emergency planning, risk assessment, damage assessm...
Maxar Transform API
Transform API exposes image transformation primitives (reproject, tile, mosaic, format-convert) over Maxar imagery. A TypeScript client (@maxar/transform-api) and OpenLayers hel...
Collections
GraphQL
Maxar Technologies GraphQL API
Maxar Technologies provides high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial intelligence. The API covers image discovery, ordering, streaming imagery, change detection analytic...
GRAPHQL