Lanteris Space Systems

Lanteris Space Systems is an American manufacturer of satellites and space systems, based in Palo Alto, California, that designs and builds spacecraft for government and commercial customers. It began in 1957 as the Western Development Laboratories of Philco, passed to the Ford Motor Company in 1966, and was renamed Space Systems/Loral in 1990 when Loral Corporation bought it. MacDonald Dettwiler acquired it in 2012, and when that company bought DigitalGlobe in 2017 to form Maxar Technologies it became the satellite manufacturing arm of the group, trading for a time as Maxar Space Solutions and then Maxar Space Systems. After Advent International took Maxar private in 2023 it was run as a separate company, and on 1 October 2025 it was renamed Lanteris Space Systems. Its products include direct-to-home broadcast satellites built on the 1300 bus, the solar electric propulsion chassis of the Psyche spacecraft and the WorldView Legion imaging satellites. Intuitive Machines reported completing its purchase in January 2026.