# Vantor
*commercial . companies*

US commercial Earth-imaging operator, headquartered in Westminster, Colorado. Rebranded from Maxar Intelligence on 1 October 2025; the broader corporate lineage runs DigitalGlobe (1992), MDA acquisition forming Maxar Technologies (October 2017), Advent International private acquisition of Maxar (May 2023), and the September 2023 split into Maxar Space Systems (now Lanteris Space Systems) and Maxar Intelligence. Operator of WorldView Legion, WorldView-1/2/3, GeoEye-1, and historical IKONOS / QuickBird very-high-resolution Earth-imaging constellations. Revenue mix is government-prime-dominant (NGA, USSF) with a commercial direct channel via Vantor Hub (STAC API, credits, WorldView tasking suite) plus reseller partnerships with SkyFi and Apollo Mapping. The 20-year DigitalGlobe to Vantor archive is the company's primary commercial differentiator. For EO-Atlas FK purposes, Vantor is the manufacturer FK on WorldView-class sensor entities and operator FK on WorldView-class mission entities.

## Specifications
- **last reviewed date**: 2026-05-24
- **country**: United States
- **website**: https://www.vantor.com
- **operator domains**: ["vantor.com","maxar.com"]
- **founded year**: 2025
- **last verified date**: "2026-05-19T00:00:00.000Z"
- **verified by**: sw
- **claim status**: unclaimed

## Editorial
Vantor is a US commercial Earth observation operator and spatial intelligence company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado. Its corporate lineage runs from DigitalGlobe, founded in 1992, through the 2017 merger with MDA that created Maxar Technologies, Advent International's .4 billion private acquisition of Maxar in May 2023, and the subsequent September 2023 organisational split that separated imagery operations (Maxar Intelligence, now Vantor) from satellite manufacturing (Maxar Space Systems, now Lanteris Space Systems). Vantor adopted its current name on 1 October 2025.[^wiki-vantor]

The company operates the WorldView constellation, comprising five active satellites: WorldView-1 (50 cm panchromatic), WorldView-2 (46 cm pan, 8-band multispectral), WorldView-3 (31 cm pan, 29-band sensor including SWIR), GeoEye-1 (41 cm pan, 1.65 m multispectral), and WorldView Legion (a six-satellite high-resolution constellation fully deployed by 2025, offering up to 15 daily revisits at mid-latitudes at 30 cm multispectral resolution).[^wiki-wv-legion][^eoportal-wv3] This archive, accumulated across three decades of continuous imaging, is Vantor's primary commercial differentiator.

Customers span US and allied government agencies, with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency as the dominant government customer under long-standing commercial imagery contracts, through commercial data resellers SkyFi and Apollo Mapping and direct enterprise users including Google and Lockheed Martin.[^wiki-vantor] Revenue was approximately 87.5 million in 2025, generated by roughly 1,900 employees.

Beyond raw imagery, Vantor positions itself as a spatial intelligence platform. Its software portfolio includes Vivid (global basemap and 3D terrain products), Tensorglobe (an AI-ready spatial intelligence platform combining multi-sensor data, launched October 2025), Cortex (analysis workbench), Raptor (GPS-resilient navigation for autonomous systems, launched February 2025), and Sentry (a surface-change monitoring system, launched June 2025). Imagery access for commercial buyers routes through the Vantor Hub catalogue and STAC API.

Vantor is wholly privately held by Advent International; no public equity exists. Satellite manufacturing is handled by its sister company Lanteris Space Systems under the same Advent ownership umbrella.

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