Maxar Applied sciences (NYSE:) shares jumped 15% Wednesday after the area know-how firm obtained a satellite tv for pc imagery contract from an company of the Protection Division.

The Nationwide Reconnaissance Workplace awarded the 10-year contract for the federal government’s Electro-Optical Industrial Layer (EOCL) program, which is an effort to usher in a number of business satellite tv for pc makers from the U.S.

Maxar mentioned the contract is price as much as $3.24 billion, together with a five-year base contract and a five-year choice after that.

Maxar beforehand was the one supplier of economic satellite tv for pc tools. The Nationwide Reconnaissance Workplace additionally gave contracts to BlackSky (BSKY) and Planet and mentioned the billions of {dollars} price of agreements is a “historic” growth of its business satellite tv for pc acquisition program.

Along with the contract information, Maxar narrowed its full-year 2022 gross sales and adjusted earnings steerage for its Earth Intelligence unit and for the entire firm. Earth Intelligence income steerage is now a spread between $1.170 billion and $1.220 billion, and adjusted earnings earlier than curiosity, taxes, depreciation and amortization for the unit is a spread between $520 million and $555 million.

Complete firm income is projected to be in a spread of $1.805 billion and $1.855 billion, and whole firm adjusted EBIDTA is seen in a spread between $455 million and $505 million.

By Liz Moyer