SiriusXM has ordered two satellites to support its services.
SXM-11 and 12 will be built and delivered by Maxar Technologies, its longtime provider, which currently is working on SXM-9 and 10 for the company.
The geostationary birds “will be twin high-powered digital audio radio satellites, built on Maxar’s proven 1300-class platform at the company’s manufacturing facilities in Palo Alto and San Jose, Calif.,” the two companies said in an announcement.
SXM-8 went into service last year. The company plans to launch SXM-9 in 2024, and then one satellite per year for the three years after that.
The relationship with Maxar goes back to the first generation of Sirius satellites in 2000, eight years before the merger of XM Satellite and Sirius.
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