SSL (company)

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SSL

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Aerospace
Founded	1957 (as Philco WDL) 1990 (as Space Systems/Loral)
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California, USA
Number of employees	2900
Parent	Maxar Technologies
Website	SSL

SSL, formerly Space Systems/Loral, LLC (SS/L), of Palo Alto, California, is a wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary of Maxar Technologies.

SSL designs and builds satellites and space systems for a wide variety of government and commercial customers. Its products include high-powered direct-to-home broadcast satellites, commercial weather satellites, digital audio radio satellites, Earth observation satellites and spot-beam satellites for data networking applications.