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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.

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Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Maxar Technologies the way a machine reads it — 57 machine-readable artifacts across 25 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Maxar Technologies scores 61.8/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 61.8/100 · strong
Contract Quality 14.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Maxar Technologies

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Maxar Technologies. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 25

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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...

Maxar Technologies Accounts API

The Accounts API from Maxar Technologies — 2 operation(s) for accounts.

Maxar Technologies API Keys API

The API Keys API from Maxar Technologies — 2 operation(s) for api keys.

Maxar Technologies Collections API

Browse and inspect collections

Maxar Technologies Credits API

The Credits API from Maxar Technologies — 1 operation(s) for credits.

Maxar Technologies Deliveries API

The Deliveries API from Maxar Technologies — 1 operation(s) for deliveries.

Maxar Technologies Estimates API

The Estimates API from Maxar Technologies — 1 operation(s) for estimates.

Maxar Technologies Events API

The Events API from Maxar Technologies — 1 operation(s) for events.

Maxar Technologies Feasibility API

The Feasibility API from Maxar Technologies — 1 operation(s) for feasibility.

Maxar Technologies Image API

The Image API from Maxar Technologies — 1 operation(s) for image.

Maxar Technologies Items API

Retrieve individual STAC items

Maxar Technologies Monitors API

The Monitors API from Maxar Technologies — 2 operation(s) for monitors.

Maxar Technologies Orders API

The Orders API from Maxar Technologies — 2 operation(s) for orders.

Maxar Technologies Search API

Search and filter imagery and derivatives

Maxar Technologies Subscriptions API

The Subscriptions API from Maxar Technologies — 1 operation(s) for subscriptions.

Maxar Technologies Tasks API

The Tasks API from Maxar Technologies — 2 operation(s) for tasks.

Maxar Technologies Tokens API

Issue and refresh access tokens

Maxar Technologies Users API

The Users API from Maxar Technologies — 2 operation(s) for users.

Maxar Technologies WFS API

The WFS API from Maxar Technologies — 1 operation(s) for wfs.

Maxar Technologies WMS API

The WMS API from Maxar Technologies — 1 operation(s) for wms.

Maxar Technologies WMTS API

The WMTS API from Maxar Technologies — 1 operation(s) for wmts.

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Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Scroll within the panel for all 7 ·

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

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

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Maxar Technologies Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Maxar Technologies Context

28 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Maxar Technologies API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Maxar Technologies API Rules

8 rules · 2 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Maxar Monitor

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Maxar Order

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Maxar STAC Item

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Maxar Tasking Request

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Maxar Technologies Order Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Maxar Technologies Stac Item Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Maxar Technologies Task Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 8

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Auth Token Request

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Auth Token Response

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Discovery Search Request

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Discovery Search Response

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Monitor Create Request

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Order Place Request

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Order Place Response

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Task Submit Request

9 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Maxar Technologies Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Maxar Technologies Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Maxar Technologies Agentic Access

43 operations · 18 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

43 operations · 18 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Maxar Technologies — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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