Maxar Technologies : Your Favorite SiriusXM Channel, Brought to You From Space

Barely 20 years since the introduction of satellite radio to North America, the industry has seen challenges, changes and innovation. SiriusXM is now an essential source for audio entertainment-and it is one of many things integral to our daily lives on Earth but enabled by technology in space. As the leader in satellite radio, SiriusXM partners with the leader in space manufacturing, Maxar, to build the spacecraft needed to bring this service to home, office and mobile listeners across the continent.

Maxar has been building-yes, during a pandemic-SXM-7 and SXM-8, two large high-power broadcasting satellites, to replace the Boeing-built XM-3 and XM-4 as those satellites near their end-of-life. SXM-7 and SXM-8 are built on the versatile 1300-class spacecraft platform, the world's most trusted spacecraft platform. The quality and reliability of Maxar-built spacecraft ensures tens of millions of SiriusXM customers across the U.S. and Canada have access to the radio content they want-at all times. Starting this year, all service-providing SiriusXM satellites will be Maxar-built satellites. (We built the first- and second-generation Sirius satellites, too.)