Good day, and welcome to Maxar Technologies' Third Quarter 2022 Conference Call and Webcast. Today's call is being recorded. I would now like to turn today's call over to Jonny Bell in Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Good afternoon, and thanks, operator. Welcome to Maxar's third quarter 2022 earnings conference call. I'm joined today by the company's Chief Executive Officer, Dan Jablonsky, Senior Vice President and GM of our enterprise business, Dan Nord, and Chief Financial Officer, Biggs Porter. Each will make some opening remarks, after which we're going to open up the line for your questions. We're shooting to wrap up the call in about an hour. Before we get started, I'd like to refer listeners to the accompanying slides for today's presentation, which can be found on the company's website at maxar.com. Once there, please turn to slide two, where I'd like to remind you that part of today's discussion, including responses to various questions, may contain forward-looking statements, which represent the company's estimates, future plans, objectives, and expected performance at today's date. These statements are based on current assumptions that the company believes are reasonable, but are subject to a wide range of uncertainties and risks that could lead actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking information. You can refer to the advisory regarding forward-looking statements contained in our quarterly earnings releases, earnings call slide decks, and the company's most recent MD&A sections found in our Form 10-Q on the company's website at maxar.com. With that, I'll hand the discussion over to Dan. Dan, go ahead. Thanks, Jonny, and good afternoon, everyone. It's been another busy and productive quarter for the Maxar teams. Today, I'll review key highlights for the quarter, review progress on our annual priorities, give an update on the WorldView Legion program, talk about the Wovenware acquisition that we announced today, and then have Dan Nord, GM of our enterprise business, give an update on some of the investments we've been making in our 3D and platform capabilities. Biggs will then provide a more detailed review of results and an update on guidance. Please turn to slide three. Total revenues remained relatively steady at approximately $436 million for the quarter compared to the same period in 2021. Adjusted EBITDA was $115 million, excluding a foreign exchange loss of $5 million. Total company book-to-bill this quarter was 1x and 1.8x on a year-to-date basis. Earth Intelligence, we continue to gain wider traction with the investments we've been making, especially in our 3D and platform capabilities. We're looking forward to the enhanced capacity coming online soon from the WorldView Legion satellites. Our space business continues to execute well, win key awards, and diversify into new product and customer areas. Let's now turn to slide four. We've made substantial progress on our 2022 priorities and have checked most of our boxes. I'll discuss the WorldView Legion program in more detail in a moment, but the headline is that we expect to ship our first two satellites to the launch facility in December for a January launch. The company's in good shape. We have plenty of available capital for the investments we want to make, and we're seeing great adoption of our highest margin, highest growth product sets. Revenue Earth Intelligence is lighter than we've expected though, as a result of our lower margin services business being behind on award cadence and staffing. We believe we've corrected our issues there, have been booking awards for better backlog coverage, and have had recent successes in getting personnel onboarded. Expect that to return to growth in future quarters. On the higher margin products, I'm pleased with the market signals and pipeline opportunities we're seeing across our 3D and platform capabilities and expect they will continue to drive customer value and revenue and profit growth in the quarters ahead. Those are a validation of the investments we've been making. We'll show you some of what we've been rolling out to customers in a bit, but the key thing to focus on is Maxar's unique ability to provide a worldwide, highly accurate and visually appealing, physics-based 3D digital twin of the planet. No one else does that. As we finalize Legion, we'll get the advantages of the additional capacity and enter into an increasingly strong cash generation period moving forward. On the space side of our business, we continue to make good progress. We're doing the hard and important engineering and quality manufacturing work for the world's cutting-edge communications companies and governments. The Space Infrastructure segment performed well this quarter, generating solid margin performance and program execution, and continues to be well positioned for wins across national defense, commercial, and civil missions. As we discussed during our last call, we've been investing in differentiated capabilities in our space business, like proliferated low Earth orbit or P-LEO satellites for both commercial and defense applications. Large infrastructure like the Gateway TPE program for NASA, Legion technology for Maxar, and our robotics capabilities. We continue to expand our partnerships with large defense companies as we develop efficient, commercially oriented solutions for national defense, security, and civil missions. As a reminder, during the quarter, we announced we were selected by L3Harris as their subcontractor on the SDA T1 Tracking Layer program, where we're providing buses for their 14 satellites. We've kicked off this new program, have started bending metal, and are making progress towards our first preliminary design review in January. We believe this program will continue to provide upside growth. As we've also previously mentioned, we were down-selected on the GeoXO program with NASA to perform paid study phase work for next gen weather satellites. That has the potential to be another huge win in Maxar's portfolio. We continue to execute on our backlog of other geo communications programs, and the Maxar-built Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32 satellites for Intelsat have arrived at Cape Canaveral and are expected to launch this month. We also shipped another Intelsat satellite via Antonov for launch on an Ariane rocket out of French Guiana. We're in advanced negotiations on a few commercial communications opportunities in Q4 and expect book-to-bill in the space business to exit the year at well over 1x. Regarding financial flexibility, we're positioned well and have opportunities to improve on what we pay in interest as our credit rating improves and we deploy cash to pay down debt. This quarter, we received an upgrade on our credit rating from Standard & Poor's, which is another indication we're moving in the right direction. As we've noted several times in our long range guidance, we expect 2023 to be a significant year for free cash flow. That's being driven by the continued growth in our public Earth Intelligence business, the opportunities we see ahead for our enterprise business, especially for 3D capabilities, the continued performance, execution, and diversification of Space Infrastructure business, and the roll-off of our large CapEx program as we finalize Legion and transition to operations and bring that capacity online. Please turn to slide five. On the Legion program, we're getting ready to send the first two satellites to the launch base. We expect to ship them in December for a January launch. Flight software validation testing has taken us a bit longer than we expected in September and October, but teams are in the final stages there. As you see in this slide, we're essentially hardware complete on the first two sats. The next two are heading into environmental testing, and we're wrapping up manufacturing on the final two, and then those satellites will follow the well-established environmental testing route of the prior four. On the rest of our constellation, we continually monitor the health of our satellites, and all of our satellites are fully mission capable. In October of each year, we reevaluate based on rigorous engineering simulations, the depreciable lives of our satellites for accounting purposes, which are typically shorter than the lives we use internally for planning purposes. Based on this annual accounting update, we've extended the depreciable lives of GeoEye-1, WorldView-1, and WorldView-2 by one year to the second half of 2024. Additionally, as we typically do in October, we have extended the insurance coverage for all of our satellites in our current constellation by one year at the same coverage amounts. Please turn to slide six. Moving on to another development for us Earth Intelligence. today, we announced the acquisition of Wovenware, an AI and software development company based in Puerto Rico. This acquisition deepens Maxar's software engineering and AI talent, bolsters our AI, ML, and 3D production capabilities, and enables growth opportunities in Earth Intelligence segment. It will be immediately accretive in 2023. The company will become one of Maxar's software development and AI machine learning centers of excellence. This acquisition also helps with our services business, and because Wovenware is in U.S. territory, we'll be able to obtain security clearances and do classified work. Wovenware's cofounders will continue to oversee day-to-day operations of the company. We're excited to welcome Christian, Carlos, and the approximately 150 software engineers and developers to the Maxar team. We're gonna do something a little different on this call and have one of our GMs, Dan Nord, brief new technology for 3D AR and simulations that we've been rolling out to customers. Dan joined us 18 months ago, and is Senior Vice President and GM of our enterprise business, where he's responsible for managing our central technology platforms for tech and defense customers and for expanding our business with commercial and enterprise customers. He has a strong background in software engineering, mobile applications, and the video game industry. Prior to joining Maxar, he worked at Amazon, where he led product management for games. Before Amazon, he led product management for mobile and VR at Electronic Arts. Dan? Thanks, Dan. Please turn to slide seven. This shows what Maxar is well known for, the stunning high-resolution 30-centimeter satellite imagery that we collect at global scale on satellites we operate, and we deliver to the U.S. government, our allies, and commercial customers for the past two decades. This one is Buckingham Palace during the recent Queen's memorial as seen from space. On slide 8, Maxar's other key differentiator is our 125+ PB archive of high-resolution satellite imagery that we have added to every day for decades. This one is Beijing Airport, seen on a rare smog-free day. This archive is our one-of-a-kind digital time machine of the world. We have it stored and accessible in the cloud, and we use it to create unique products for our customers. On slide nine, I'll talk about one of these unique products, Maxar's Vivid Basemaps. These are imagery mosaics of the entire Earth, first created in 2015 to support our enterprise customers' mapping initiatives. Vivid Basemaps are a single cloudless color-corrected skin of the Earth stitched together from more than 440,000 satellite images into what has become really the default base map for consumer mapping. In fact, billions of people around the world have been using Maxar 2D imagery regularly in their cars, in their mobile mapping apps for years, often without knowing about it. We turn to slide 10. Now, with Maxar's acquisition of Vricon in 2020, we've again leveraged our imagery archive to create a sustainable competitive advantage. This time it's in 3D. Maxar runs AI and ML algorithms on our entire archive to create a 3D globe, a true digital twin of the Earth at an accuracy and resolution specification that would take years of imagery collections to match. The resulting product, seen on slide 11, is Maxar's Precision3D. This is of Yosemite National Park in California, one of my favorite places, where every cliff, boulder, and tree is within just a few feet of reality. We're doing this at global scale. Nobody else can. Slide 12. Here's why we believe 3D is important. We see the world shifting from operating in a 2D paradigm on flat-screen devices like the phones, laptops, TVs we use every day, and the 2D video chats that have started since COVID. We see a shift to 3D immersive technologies like augmented reality, AR, virtual reality, VR, and digital twin simulations that mimic the physical world. These are often referred to as the metaverse. This 2D to 3D transition has signs already. VR gaming is already a multi-billion-dollar industry, transporting customers around the world via virtual tourism and VR games. AR glasses are imminent and will provide a virtual heads-up display of relevant information as you go about your day. Even AR contact lenses, that technology is in active development right now. With modern GPUs powered by near infinite compute on the cloud, we're producing true-to-life 3D graphics in near real-time. We're on the cusp of another major technology shift. On slide 13, this is where we fit in. We see an opportunity for our 3D digital twin of the Earth to be the reference globe for this shift in technology from 2D to 3D. Immersive 3D applications need an accurate version of the world to use as a base map, just as the 2D mapping applications do today with our Vivid Basemap. Slide 14. We took a big step forward in our 3D strategy two weeks ago at the Unreal Fest conference hosted by Epic Games in New Orleans. For background, Epic Games, they're the makers of the Unreal game engine, which powers thousands of games worldwide, including Epic's own global hit game, Fortnite. If you haven't heard of Fortnite and you're on this call, go ask your kids afterwards. At Unreal Fest, we presented our capabilities to thousands of developers and released a demo of a photoreal digital twin of New Orleans, where the conference was being held. We built it with our partner, blackshark.ai, a company we made a strategic investment in earlier this year and mentioned on our Q1 earnings call. This demo shows all of New Orleans from Bourbon Street to the Superdome running in the Unreal Engine, built only from satellite imagery and AI models. If you'd like to see the demo video, you can scan the QR code or click the link on slide 15. The demo was downloaded by more than 120 companies in industries ranging from automotive and drone delivery and climate protection, all the way to video games and Hollywood film and TV production. You can turn to slide 15. Hollywood is using game engines too. This is a picture of The Mandalorian on Disney+, but also The Matrix Awakens, and others have gone public about how they use game engines to make their content. Instead of flying a cast and crew to film on location or using green screens that are replaced later with background graphics like you see here, they now surround actors with a 360-degree screen rendering game engine-produced scenery. With Maxar's 3D globe in a game engine next year, film producers could theoretically film anywhere. Slide 16. A little more on our blackshark.ai partnership. We met Blackshark when they used our data on the Microsoft Flight Simulator game pictured here. This is a digital London with digital planes, and it looks great. On slide 17, talk a little bit more about Blackshark and our own Precision3D. As mentioned on the Q1 earnings call, we joined Microsoft as an investor in Blackshark, using our imagery as a form of currency in exchange for equity in the company and a meaningful royalty on products using our data. We said Blackshark would help us enter the gaming market, and now it has. Blackshark can create a lightweight 3D version of the world that prioritizes rich graphics over high accuracy, and they do it fast. Maxar's own Precision3D processes our entire archive and prioritizes accuracy over visual appeal. Precision3D is also already in the market today and in use cases that require high accuracy, like the U.S. Army's One World Terrain program, which uses Maxar's 3D globe to train our troops in true to life environments. Slide 18. 3D demand is also accelerating in the enterprise market. Precision3D is used by current customers in autonomous navigation, drone delivery, and telecommunication. We're also seeing interest from companies in risk management, climate protection, and as mentioned before, media production. Also, our largest 3D deals also now include royalties so that Maxar participates in the upside of successful products that use our data, something we haven't always had in 2D. Slide 19, the last slide. We believe that the largest long-term growth driver for the 3D globe is large-scale simulations that can improve decision-making across governments or enterprises. A few examples. If you take the Queen's Memorial from the first slide, an accurate city scale simulation of London populated by the millions of AI bots to represent people, this would help authorities optimize the experience in advance. Police placement, signage, walking routes. The sim could insert new situations, bad weather or a car accident, to aid in contingency planning in advance. In a commercial example, a product scale sim, a global scale sim could help a new product launch by modeling inventory distribution, a global supply chain throughput, and even billboard placement to optimize customer contact. This kind of capability, rapidly testing decision scenarios in a scaled simulation with both real and staged input, that could be a key differentiator for any sector, and that's where we're headed. To wrap up, Maxar has an established high-margin enterprise business with proven capabilities and high-profile customers. As we add in WorldView Legion capacity, our strategic investments in 3D that we've mentioned today, and our transition towards a more scalable Data-as-a-Service model, we see upside in our enterprise business going forward. Now I'll hand it over to Biggs Porter. Thanks, Dan. Please turn to slide 20, where we present year-over-year comparisons for the third quarter. Net loss for Q3 was $4 million, inclusive of a $12 million expense recorded related to the satisfaction of an offset obligation. Net loss per share was $0.05. Revenue was flat year-over-year for the quarter on a consolidated basis. Adjusted EBITDA margins for the quarter are down roughly 70 basis points, inclusive of $5 million in unfavorable foreign exchange charges and increased investments we're making this year to drive future growth. Excluding foreign exchange losses of $5 million tied to the strong dollar, our Adjusted EBITDA was $115 million. On a year-to-date basis, total company revenues decreased 2% and Adjusted EBITDA margins expanded 50 basis points, including $7 million of foreign exchange charges. Please turn to slide 21. Earth Intelligence revenue increased 1% year-over-year in the quarter, driven by a $15 million increase in U.S. government revenue, including $11 million in crisis support services and a $3 million increase in revenues from international defense and intelligence customers. These increases were partially offset by a $14 million decrease in revenues from enterprise programs due primarily to a significant enterprise contract in the third quarter of last year. We expect enterprise growth in the fourth quarter. Adjusted EBITDA margins decreased 400 basis points driven by increased spend, particularly on product development efforts. On a year-to-date basis, we continue to experience increases in product revenues from U.S. government programs. However, this underlying growth continues to be masked by headwinds we're facing in our services business driven by contract award delays in prior quarters and slow ramp-up of awarded work due to cleared workforce challenges. On a year-to-date basis, our services business is down roughly $30 million. However, our backlog continues to grow, and we expect our services business to recover as we catch up on staffing challenges, including some benefit from Wovenware. I should note that we had one large Precision3D transaction that we expected in the third quarter that has slipped into the fourth quarter. I will discuss that more in a moment. Please turn to slide 22. Space Infrastructure revenue increased 3% year-over-year in the third quarter due to increases in U.S. government and commercial programs. Adjusted EBITDA margins expanded 990 basis points driven by reduced risks on certain programs nearing completion. On year-to-date basis, revenues have increased 1% and Adjusted EBITDA margins have expanded 750 basis points. Normalizing for one significant charge in 2021, Adjusted EBITDA margins have expanded 290 basis points. Please turn to slide 23. The company generated $124 million in operating cash flow from continuing operations in the third quarter and invested $75 million in CapEx. Please turn to slide 24. We had roughly $379 million liquidity at the end of the quarter. Net debt decreased $44 million this quarter, driven by free cash flow generation. We are well within our covenant ratios and continue to look forward to free cash flow generation continuing in the fourth quarter and strengthening next year. As Dan mentioned, in October, S&P upgraded our credit ratings to a B plus from a B rating on improved credit metrics supported by recent contract awards. We expect improved credit ratings will help drive better pricing in future refinancing transactions, particularly once WorldView Legion launches are underway, combined with free cash flow generation and debt reduction. As we highlighted last quarter, our credit agreement allows us to reprice our Term Loan B without a premium as early as December 2022, depending on market conditions and loan valuations, and our bonds become callable beginning in June 2024. Now, please turn to slide 25 for an update on our 2022 guidance. Earth Intelligence, we've lowered our total revenue guidance range by $50 million, driven by a combination of factors. As I spoke to earlier, our service business is down roughly $30 million year-to-date, and we do not think we're going to be able to recover this year. To a lesser extent, we have seen some imagery transactions slide right, and this has hindered our ability to hit the top end of our previous range. Where we ultimately end up depends in large part on two large, high-margin, multi-year arrangements that we expect to contribute significantly in the fourth quarter, one in public and one in enterprise. Notably, on the larger of the two, we're well along in all the customer approvals. Both of these are large multi-year deals with a significant portion expected to be deliverable out of inventory year-end. This is subject to the final definition of the contract and the customer's desired delivery schedule. The second deal is with a large commercial customer looking to expand their relationship with us, including access to our 3D product. At the midpoint, this still represents 5% growth in revenue Earth Intelligence from last year, despite capacity constraints and the $30 million of top-line headwinds we're seeing in our services business. We continue to see a strong Earth Intelligence and expect to continue to grow from this base. Revenue guidance for Space Infrastructure and intersegment eliminations have both increased $5 million on the WorldView Legion program, but this has no impact to consolidated results. Turning now to Adjusted EBITDA guidance. We are reducing our consolidated Adjusted EBITDA guidance by roughly $10 million, reflecting the effect of the Forex charges we've experienced year to date. Earth Intelligence, our updated expected range for Adjusted EBITDA is $500 million-530 million, which in the middle of the range reflects a 45% Adjusted EBITDA margin. Guidance for Space Infrastructure Adjusted EBITDA is now at $80 million-95 million. This is driven primarily on the overperformance in the third quarter. In terms of trends, we expect our R&D expenditures for the year to be more heavily weighted towards the fourth quarter. Our expectations for corporate and other expenses have increased $10 million to 95 million for the year. This increase was driven by the $7 million of year-to-date foreign exchange losses on a strengthening dollar. All in, our Adjusted EBITDA for the company in the middle of the range reflects 11% year-over-year growth. We've tightened the range of our expectations for operating cash flow around the same midpoint of $340 million. I said last quarter that capital expenditures were tracking towards the top end of our guidance range, and we've increased that slightly to $330 million for the year, based primarily on the timing of WorldView Legion expenditures. Please turn to slide 26. We don't confirm long-range guidance each quarter, and we're currently in our planning cycle. Even though we're still in process on next year's plan and laying out the specific build-up to our targets, we are far enough along to confirm that we are holding the targets that we've guided to for next year. To avoid any confusion, those targets are for $570 million of Adjusted EBITDA and $290 million of free cash flow. Although we will not lay out all the line items comparing next year to this year at this point, the drivers of year-over-year improvement remain Legion-related revenue growth, increased imagery product revenues, growth Space Infrastructure, third-party revenues replacing Legion intercompany revenues, and lower CapEx. I should note that CapEx on Legion is currently shifted into 2023. We anticipate being able to offset this through adjusting the timing of other expenditures and by improving operating cash flow. Dan talked earlier about Legion Precision3D and the diversification of our Space Infrastructure business. We have for some time talked about our ability to drive free cash flow significantly higher in 2023 and each year after that in sequence. I want to lay out what all that means in a few closing thoughts. Maxar is at the front end of high margin, high growth with significantly increasing free cash flow. This is driven by one, increased capacity and revisit frequency from Legion. Two, accuracy of imagery and products, including proprietary Precision3D capability. three, long-term customer relationships and contracts, e.g., five years firm on EOCL, having never lost a DAF customer, and solid relationships with large tech players. Four, with Precision3D and the development of the 3D globe, the ability to capture on a broad scale new use cases such as simulation, training, planning, targeting, GPS-denied navigation, metaverse, gaming, and autonomous vehicles. Five, capture of increased customer base and smoother revenue growth through our investments in platform capabilities and customer access through a data-as-a-service model. Six, a lower cost, more capital-efficient cost base with low variable cost to support revenue and margin growth. Seven, a proven low-cost manufacturing capability that has now penetrated civil defense and intel business with a diverse product offering. We expect to hold an Investor Day following the release of our fourth quarter earnings, where we will drill into all of these. In the meantime, we'll be doing some video presentations by our leadership we'll put on our website to help with everyone's understanding of these drivers. With that, I'd like to hand the call back over to the operator to begin Q&A. Thank you. If you would like to ask a question on the phone lines today, please press star one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to remove yourself from the queue, you can press star one again. As a reminder, please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up, and if you have additional questions, you may return to the queue. We'll take our first question from Matt Akers with Wells Fargo. Hi. Yeah, good afternoon, everybody. Thanks for the question. I was wondering if you could go into a little bit more detail on the software delays on Legion. You know, what exactly are you seeing there that led to the delay? Thanks, Matt. What we talked about, we talked about this back in September, but we were seeing some software delays on the verification and validation portions of it. That's before we do all the hardware-software interface work. We've now completed essentially most of that work. The ground teams, the AI&T teams, and the others in the program have gotten the software drops. We're progressing now through the other phases of our testing and expect to start shipping satellites in December for launches in January. I mean, the essential nature of the burn-down curve wasn't as fast as we thought it was going to be, but we made our way through that part of the program. Okay. Great. Thanks. I guess, yeah, thanks for the presentation on the 3D kind of virtual earth stuff. It is pretty interesting. I guess, can you talk a little bit about, y ou know, I think you've mentioned a lot of different potential customers there, you know, sort of the timing of when that ramps up, what does that business look like in terms of, like, size and profitability and just sort of, you know, how you would sort of model that, coming at it from our perspective? Yeah. Why don't I kind of take that, and then I'll turn it over to Dan Nord for some of his perspective as well. You know, one of the things I'd stress right off the bat is the growth you have seen in the company, even as we've been capacity constrained, has been driven by our products and in particular our 3D capability. The Army One World Terrain program is one area where we're functioning very well at this point, and that's on the order of above a $50 million a year program at this point for building simulation and virtual training environments for the U.S. Army. We're seeing strong uptake with our international defense and intelligence customers as well, particularly as more functionality as we build out more of the globe, first, I guess. Second is more functionality is being realized from that, particularly with some of the hotspots going on in the world right now. We're also seeing great traction with route planning and navigation planning for example, drone companies, autonomous navigation, and any other thing by which you might want to use a digital twin or a 3D reference point for the planet. I think, you know, we've got good business. We're growing the business strongly. We've seen good adoption, and the margins are very much aligned with what we're doing in the rest of Earth Intelligence business at this point. I think, Dan, do you want to add some perspective on how you're seeing that in the enterprise a little? Sure. Yeah. I think it's a key point is that this 3D globe works for our government and allies as well as it works for enterprises. There's going to be one 3D globe as reference. I think the bigger change when we work on these 3D deals is how we structure the deals and how we deliver the content. The 3D deals are going to be better. We're going to take this impressive one-of-a-kind asset, and we're gonna make sure that we participate in the upside. That's through royalties like you see with our Blackshark deal, as well as equity. We're also gonna deliver more of a Data-as-a-Service model. That's continuous delivery instead of a big lump, you know, once a quarter or once a year. I think those are the two larger differences for us. Great. That's great. Thank you. We'll take our next question from Colin Canfield with Barclays. Hey, good afternoon, guys. Can we just focus first on the Adjusted EBITDA bridge from 2022 guide to 2023? Appreciating obviously you're not gonna get into segment details, but maybe you can just kind of talk us through the high level of operating earnings, interest expense, WorldView Legion CapEx, and then also the Wovenware acquisition. I think the employee headcount suggests something like $25 million-50 million of Adjusted EBITDA, but, you know, tell me if my math is crazy. On the final point, I think you're high in terms of the effects of the Wovenware acquisition. We're not gonna spike them out separately. Don't think that they are of a value where we expect to discretely change our guidance for 2023 associated with that. It is an important value-creating acquisition, but part of that is just in ensuring that we have the workforce to continue the efforts that we're already engaged in, as well as covering the services business from its present path. The total value I'd say is lower than your number, but we're not gonna discretely communicate it. In terms of the bridge otherwise to 2023, I guess I'll hit cash first because I think it's only got a couple of moving parts to really point out. Our Legion CapEx is growing, so CapEx will be higher than the $146 million that we previously guided to for 2023. But we're offsetting that through other reductions in CapEx. Overall, probably about a $30 million increase in CapEx. The big payments with respect to next year on Legion are really driven by insurance and launch because we're so far away or so far along otherwise with respect to the program. On EBITDA, you know, kind of starting out with Legion, we've always said that the first full year of Legion is $80 million roughly. That's the first full year of operation of all six satellites once they're all in service. In February, when we gave the guidance for 2023, we didn't expect that full $80 million in 2023 because we were launching late into the year in terms of the last launch, even at that point in time. We weren't at $80 million to start with. What we're now expecting is full operability would be in the July, August kind of time period based upon the guidance with respect to launches that we've given. That sort of gives you an idea of what we might expect with respect to the Legion contribution in 2023 without putting a fine point number on it. Having said that, we always had some contingency in our plan, going back to February for 2023. We're getting lift from Ukraine knock-on effects and increased demand, and also what we see as the opportunities on 3D, including some of the multiyear awards I've already spoken to. Got it. With respect to, it sounds like the technological or the kind of update that you guys made to software allowing you to extend the life of your legacy assets, is there an incremental profit to consider from that, or is that more just kind of like downside protection in case of Legion delays? Just to kind of clarify there, we do an engineering assessment once a year in the third quarter to determine for accounting purposes the life of the satellites. Our internal models generally show them, you know, significantly longer than that. We extended them based on that modeling this year. Those assets will continue, we believe, to produce revenue as long as they continue to be in space, even as we bring the Legion capacity online. The Legion capacity, especially while those assets are operating, will be high incremental capacity at relatively high margins. Okay. Got it. I appreciate that clarification. Thanks for the question. Thanks, Colin. We'll take our next question from Peter Arment with Baird. Hey, good afternoon, Dan, Biggs. Dan, hey, thanks for all the details, and I appreciate Dan's contribution there. That was really interesting on the 3D. Hey, Dan, could you update us on, like, kind of, you know, expectations now with the cadence of the launches now that you've kind of got the official date now kind of moving to January, how we expect the others to be launched? Thanks. Yeah. We still expect that after the first launch, we're about two months for the second launch. Then the third launch will be, you know, in due course. We'll see how the first two go, but it's probably that, you know, two to three months after that, depending on how the teams are and how the commissioning process goes. We would expect a significant amount of revenue and EBITDA from the assets in 2023. We're looking forward to getting them downrange and getting them up in space. Yeah, for sure. I would note, you know, because we're always cautious in how we do the language, and this is a space program, and so we will continue to rigorously test all aspects of each of the satellites right up until the point when we're in final launch phase. You know, we're known for our quality. One of the reasons we're known for that is the extensive testing we do all the way throughout and right up until the end of the programs. Appreciate that. You had previously said that, kind of a 60-day checkout once in orbit. Is that still accurate? Yeah. We're right around that within a few days either way. Appreciate it. I'll leave it there. Thanks, guys. Okay. Thanks, Peter. I'll take our next question from Chris Quilty with Quilty Analytics LLC. Thanks. I wanted to follow up on one of the guidance items. I think I heard you say 45% EBITDA margins for the EI business for the year, which if I heard that correctly, would imply like close to 50% in Q4. Is that correct? Am I doing my math correct? Yes. Yeah. 45% for the year. That, the fourth quarter would end up being about 50. Keep in mind that, you know, that's a step up in revenue and margin in the fourth quarter driven by product revenues, not service revenues. The product revenues are a higher margin than that 50%. In fact, to the extent that we're delivering our inventory, the time we deliver the margin is closer to 100. Gotcha. That's just mix related. How should we think about the margins for the Space Infrastructure business? It sounds like, you know, you took out some of the management reserves in the third quarter, really big margin. I mean, should we be aiming more for the low double digits going forward for the next couple of quarters? Well, you know, implied in the middle of our range, the full year margin for Space Infrastructure would be around just under 12%. The fourth quarter I think would be around, you know, 9%-ish. We'll continue to see, you know, quarter-to-quarter variations, attributable to, you know, EAC accounting and, you know, the variability that creates. Going forward, we continue to target, you know, the 10% kind of range. Like it to be better than that, but we will see variability, you know, period to period. I think, kind of on that point, Chris, we are seeing better performance out of the Space segment, at this point in the journey. Some of that's due to program mix, some of that's due to just better performance in the programs, and then some of it's due to the roll-off of some of the larger programs that have been impacting us on the downside, as we, you know, move into programs that were more, probably more appropriately, you know, bid and managed out through the future here. I think, you know, we're really excited about the mix of programs we've got. There will be some that are cost plus. We've got the accounting systems in place to do that. There will be some that are firm fixed price, and we'll expect higher margins on those types of programs where we're taking a little more risk on them as well. Gotcha. One other accounting related question. Can you give us either the orders or the general book-to-bill for both of the segments? Sure. You want it for the quarter or year-to-date, trailing twelve? For the quarter. You know, I'll give you trailing twelve because we think we like looking over the longer period. I've already given some, I think, on year-to-date. But trailing twelve EI is 2.5 book-to-bill. Space Infrastructure, trailing twelve is 0.6. But I will emphasize that the quarter was high at 1.5. We expect to be over 1x for the year. Consolidated basis, we're at 1.5. All of these things I think are trending in the right direction, and we look for, you know, sizable orders here in the fourth quarter on Space Infrastructure in particular. Gotcha. Presumably the guidance includes any contribution from the acquisition, which is probably not hugely material? You know, I said it is not expected to move the needle against the guidance we've already given. Yeah, we're not changing it for that. Gotcha. Final question, just on Earth Intelligence commercial side of the business. It looks like there's been some international weakness recently. Again, is that attributed to the same delayed order, issues we've been talking about previously? Is there something else going on there? I wouldn't say we've got any weakness on the international side. I think we've seen strong growth throughout the year. We see you know some fairly large deals to close out the year as Big mentioned in Q4 here. You know just seeing very strong, particularly with the situation and use cases that are being shown in some of the crisis and conflict areas around the world, we're seeing pretty good adoption of the product sets. We have been limited by satellite capacity with those traditional international customers. As we bring Legion online, expect to see a lot of tailwinds coming from that. Very good. Can't wait till January. Thanks, Chris. Yeah. I think I just want to add in on the Wovenware acquisition. When I say it doesn't move the needle in terms of the bottom line expectations for next year, and then we're not adjusting our guidance for it. That's in part because we're gonna use those resources to fuel our long-term growth. You know, we're using them to further our development of the 3D product. Yes, we expect to get some support to other areas as well, like services. But it's really about being a very efficient resource that we can add to over time that will drive the business forward and enable that long-term growth. Very good. Thank you. We'll take our next question from Robert Spingarn with Melius Research. Hey, good afternoon. Dan, I think that Matt just asked you about WVL software, and Peter talked about the launch schedule. I'm not sure we talked about the hardware status for WVL three through six. Can you update on that? Yeah, sure. Just kind of like, I go back to the one slide we referenced in the deck, but the first two are essentially hardware ready to ship downrange, waiting for their final software packages for the launch and then commissioning phase of the program. We'll want to make sure we validate that software all the way through the hardware interface and the AI&T sections and with the ground teams. They've got the software. We'll continue to do any patches to it along the way here as we get ready for launch. That's looking good. On the next two satellites, they are going into AI&T. They're going into the environmental testing that we do up in Palo Alto. Rob, I think you've seen some of those facilities. Yes. Thermal vac chambers, shaker tables, all that kind of stuff. They're in that process right now. We'll be running closed loop software all the way through those testing phases. Then five and six. Their hardware is done, Dan, at that point? Yeah. As they come out of AI&T, they're essentially hardware ready to go downrange too. You know, we'll- Okay We'll continue to do performance reference testing all the way until we send them down to the base. You know, they're in very good shape. The last two satellites, we've got the instrument for five. We're still waiting for the instrument for six from Raytheon. When we bring that one in, and then one or two other minor hardware components, we'll be hardware ready on those as well. At this point, those are further out. That's not unexpected to have them at that phase. With the exception of that last instrument for the sixth satellite, we're tracking right along to where we want to be with the three coordinated launches. Okay. Then just a high-level question. You know, Biggs's offered up a really nice list of the numerous growth drivers earlier, and if I heard correctly, all but one are in the EI business. You've got a ton of momentum. You've talked about it throughout the call. The other Dan had a really nice description of the innovation you've got in that business. You know, it's a little bit of a loaded question and we have some history with this, but does SI fit in the long term as you move past WVL with all the strength you have in EI and just given how the market is changing on the hardware side with all of the competition and so forth? We're very pleased with the performance of the Space Infrastructure side of the business. I think they're doing a great job. We really like the way in which the Legion program will support both sides of the business as well as, I think, as we've moved our way or started moving our way into defense and intel, there's a lot of customer coordination and overlap, which is particularly nice, for example, the National Reconnaissance Office, Space Force, things the Air Force does as well. We'll continue to, you know, push that business forward. Chris and team are doing a great job, and like what we see there. Okay. Thanks very much. You bet. As a reminder, that is star one to ask a question. Our next question comes from Tim James with TD Securities. Thank you. Thanks for your time. My first question is housekeeping, actually. I just wanted to go back. Dan, you mentioned upfront about the change in the depreciation lives for GeoEye-1, WorldView-1 and WorldView-2. I'm sorry, when did the lives for accounting purposes get extended to on each of those satellites? We do that in the third quarter. I'm sorry, in the fourth quarter. We do that in the fourth quarter review. It's an October work stream for us, and we do a rigorous engineering assessment and simulation. We do that for accounting purposes because we have to every year. We've got internal models that generally have those running longer than the accounting simulations for our long range planning and forecasting. You know, I think what the takeaway there is just like we have in many years in the past, we've extended those three satellites by a year. Also, you know, the key point is that we've renewed insurance on the entire constellation for the next year as we normally do at the same rates that we've previously been procuring the insurance. It's one year that you've extended the lives from on those. Is that right? I believe they were all due to expire. The lives were finishing up in either Q3 or Q4, and they've each been extended by one year. Is that correct? Second, each by one year, second half of 2024 for all of them now. Okay. Okay. I think, you know, hopefully you get it, but on the insurance, it's not just a matter of us increasing the coverage by one year. That's the insurers taking all the data on the performance of the satellites and assessing that they're comfortable with this renewing the insurance for another year as well. There's a lot of analysis that goes into this, not just for depreciation purposes, but also given to the insurers, which supports everybody's decision making. Okay. My next question on the, you know, the services business. You talked Biggs about the kind of a shortfall or how services business has been lagging, I guess your expectations. Can you just walk through again the reasons for that and quantify that? I think you mentioned $30 million. I just wanted to understand, is that a kind of difference on a year-over-year basis, or is that relative to your expectations? Maybe just some additional color there would be helpful. It's really both. In terms of, you know, being against our expectations and also against last year, for some quarters, there was a very high level of proposals that were outstanding with the customers that just weren't being freed up for us to execute against. That has corrected itself such that the book-to-bill actually year to date for services, although it's not in what I gave earlier, is 1.4 x. Backlog is growing, and we're catching up on those awards. We do still have challenges associated with getting cleared personnel available to work on some of these programs. That is, if you will, tempering the growth that we've hoped for and that we expect to get going forward. You know, what and where will be one of the ways in which we would expect we're going to be able to support growth in the services business as well as what we talked about in terms of driving product development otherwise. Is it primarily services work for U.S. government entities? Absolutely. Yeah. Well- Yeah. The very substantial bulk of all the services work is defense and intelligence customers throughout the government. Where the delays are or the, you know, the differences is there, obviously. Okay. Then just my last question, if I could, and again, this maybe is going back to the presentation that was, you know, very informative. Is it possible to give us a sense for how. I realize this is more about an opportunity for the future, but, you know, if we look at the business today, how much revenue or approximately, how much comes from customers that are using data or services, 3D or otherwise, for entertainment purposes, whether it's gaming or there's, you know, a slide on Hollywood uses in there. Is it possible to kind of give us a bit of a sense. You know, we, we haven't- How significant it is today. I'm gonna turn it over to Daniel Nord in a second. We haven't broken it out by industry, other than to say inside of the enterprise business, we've got gaming entertainment, of course, the traditional large tech companies that we work with, mapping applications, geolocation services, risk management, vehicle navigation, those sorts of things. We've seen good growth on the public sector side. We see an opportunity for really substantial growth on the enterprise side as well. Dan, do you have any thoughts on that? Yeah. Some of this is new technology entering Hollywood. Actually the Unreal Fest Presentation we gave a few weeks ago, that was when some of these customers just learned about it. We're right on the front end of some of the growth with the blackshark.ai product. There's plenty of other applications to use our 3D data in. I think it's opportunity and upside on the gaming and entertainment side, and you know, clear opportunity in mapping, drone delivery, and some of the more expected areas for a 3D globe. Okay. Thank you very much. Those are all the questions I have. Thanks, Tim. We'll take our next question from Michael Ciarmoli with Truist Securities. Hey, guys. Good evening. Thanks for taking the questions. Maybe Dan, I guess if you could speak a little bit, you know, I'm thinking about the overall pipeline and the competitive environment. I guess if we were to, you know, go back 12-15 months ago, there was, you know, certainly a lot more buzz about, you know, all these upstart satellite competitors. But what are you seeing out there now? I mean, certainly you've done a lot here on the 3D side and scaling that up, but can you maybe just characterize what, you know, as it relates to the pipeline of opportunities and the competition, what you're seeing out there? I think we're seeing continued very, very strong adoption and growth of our product sets, particularly on Earth Intelligence side. I think that, you know, as Biggs walked through what our expectations are for the 2023 numbers that have been out there for quite some period of time, some of the crisis spots in the world have yielded sort of an insatiable demand for the types of satellite data and derivative products like the 3D products that Maxar provides, especially as we, you know, show more global scale accurate applications for those things like 3D point clouds and Precision3D applications. I think, you know, we're doing really well there. The broad area components plus the hyper, you know, sort of accuracy at 30-centimeter quality is really what's driving the engines for the AI and machine learning applications that we're seeing, and that's where we're seeing the growth out into the future. Legion will do nothing but, you know, contribute pretty dramatically to the amount of capacity that we have, especially in the areas of the world where we have the highest product sets for that. I, you know, kind of not to comment too much on what we're seeing in the marketplace with everybody else, but even as others have come in and are doing some of this, it hasn't really impacted too much or if at all, the trend lines we've been on that we've been expecting. On the space side of the business, you know, like we've been doing really good diversification work. We continue to love and serve the customers in the geocommunications market, but being able to diversify products and customers, and we've got a lot more products in that part of the business now. It's allowing us to penetrate and drive real cash flow and real profits in the business there also, and we're excited about those trends. Got it. Just one more, an update on the WorldView Legion. Do you still just have one contract signed, one customer, or what are the expectations there? No. We've got much more than that. We've got 2 DAF customers that have signed up for the additional capacity all the way through. We've upgraded, gosh, it's 7 now, of our ground stations, and that's in anticipation of them picking up the Legion capacity as well. There's some built in for growth with U.S. government customers and with that additional capacity also, it meets all the specifications for the commercial customers, the enterprise customers that we got, and we've got strong backlog for them as well. There are some contracts where we have not been able to deliver close to the requirements for 100% of the contract. As we start delivering more with the Legion constellation, we'll snap right into some revenue growth there as well. Got it. Helpful. All right. Great. Thanks, guys. Thank you. We'll take our next question from Austin Moeller with Canaccord Genuity. Hi, Dan. Good afternoon. Hey, Austin. Hi. Just my main question is on Space Infrastructure. You've had the win with L3Harris to build 14 P-LEO buses for the tracking layer. What kind of production quantities do you sort of have in your vision for the next few years for P-LEO buses? Do you think we could get to, like, 50, 100 satellites a year? That would enable you to be highly competitive with the Terran Orbital and Rocket Lab of the world. Yeah, we're certainly building that type of capability. We haven't just been winning awards, but we've been reengineering our manufacturing footprint, our design, and our space architecture, our engineering architecture groups out there as well. We will be set up. Again, the first 14 satellites are really a prototype phase. If that program gets legs and grows significantly or there are other programs in the defense and intelligence side that Maxar's certainly bidding on, and there are programs on the commercial side that would require numbers in the dozens to hundreds as you're talking about there. We'll be in a position to scale up to capture that market opportunity. We're bullish on it and we're getting lots of good market signals because the one, you know, kind of the calling card that Maxar has is the quality. As we ramp up those, like, types of production levels, we'll expect to keep the same quality our customers are used to and at very efficient delivery points, it's good signals for us right there. Excellent. Thanks for giving me some insights there on that. Thanks, Austin. We'll take our next question from Steven Muncleson with BMO Capital Markets. Hey, guys. Just a couple of quick questions on the Wovenware acquisition. It sounds like that EBITDA is already baked into the guidance where it's gonna be neutral. Is that a fair way of looking at it? At this point, as I said, it's not something we're gonna revise the guidance for at this point in time, and don't expect to do that in the future. From the standpoint of, you know, discrete third-party revenues, it's not something to move it. Otherwise, we're gonna take those resources and use them to drive our business forward. You need to think of it that way. Okay. Just on the third party, is that a business that you're gonna continue to carry on once the acquisition closes, or will this just be an internal part of Maxar? We're planning to certainly carry on with some of the customers. This is a great company. They've built a really successful long-term business. Christian and Carlos, who are the founders, and it's a great young team of software engineers and developers, many of them from University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in Puerto Rico. They've certainly done a lot of business with us in the past, but they've developed some great third-party work as well. Where that's accretive to the model in our business and where those are good customers to keep going forward, I totally expect we'll be able to do it. The nice thing is, as we grow that business, and we expect to grow it significantly down there, we'll be able to moderate between how much we do for outside and third parties and how much we do for Maxar internal development. It'll give us some flexibility on both fronts. Okay, good to hear. A final quick question. Is the acquisition gonna be funded out of cash on hand, or will you have to draw down on your credit facility? Well, we're presently, you know, drawing on the credit facility, so effectively, you know, it really doesn't matter whether you think of it as cash on hand or using credit facility. Because we, you know, we like to take any excess cash we have and pay down the credit facility, as it's available. Having said that, it's not a big cash up front outlay. It's over five years. There actually is, you know, the entire outlay is pretty pro rata over the entire five years, so it's not a big cash use up front. All right, great. Thanks for clarifying those points. Oh, sorry, was there more? No, I think that was it. Okay. We do expect it to be immediately accretive in 2023. Great. Thanks. That does conclude the question and answer session. I'd like to turn the call back over to Dan Jablonsky for any closing remarks. I'd just like to say, you know, thanks to the entire Maxar team for the great work this quarter and the work we're doing to finish out the year. Very much looking forward, as I know our investors are, to getting the Legions downrange and launched and successfully operating in space. It's a primary focus for us, and look forward to seeing many of you at the launch site. Thank you. That does conclude today's presentation. Thank you for your participation, and you may now disconnect.
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