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.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
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.
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 Introspection API
Inspect tokens
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).
Vantor Hub Account Services API
OPEN COLLECTIONVantor Hub Authentication API
OPEN COLLECTIONVantor Hub Discovery API
OPEN COLLECTIONMaxar Geospatial Platform Monitoring API
OPEN COLLECTIONMaxar Geospatial Platform Ordering API
OPEN COLLECTIONMaxar Geospatial Platform Streaming API
OPEN COLLECTIONMaxar Geospatial Platform Tasking API
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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...
GRAPHQLPricing 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
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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
JSON-LDSpectral 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
SPECTRALMaxar Technologies API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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
JSON SCHEMAMaxar Order
JSON SCHEMAMaxar STAC Item
JSON SCHEMAMaxar Tasking Request
JSON SCHEMAJSON 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
JSON STRUCTUREMaxar Technologies Stac Item Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMaxar Technologies Task Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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
EXAMPLEAuth Token Response
EXAMPLEDiscovery Search Request
EXAMPLEDiscovery Search Response
EXAMPLEMonitor Create Request
EXAMPLEOrder Place Request
EXAMPLEOrder Place Response
EXAMPLETask Submit Request
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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.
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.
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.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
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
Build 11
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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