Telesat is a Canadian satellite communications company and operator, providing connectivity solutions to telecom, government, and enterprise clients globally. They are currently developing Telesat Lightspeed, a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of 198 satellites designed for high-speed, low-latency broadband services. Telesat partners with companies like MDA Space, Orange, and Intellian for satellite manufacturing, terrestrial infrastructure, and user terminals. The company aims to begin launching satellites in 2026, with the constellation fully operational by 2027.
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Ofcom granted Telesat a license to connect broadband terminals in the U.K. to its planned Lightspeed non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) constellation.
Telesat has lined up more than 4 billion Canadian dollars so far for Lightspeed funding from existing financial resources and commitments from the Canadian government.
Telesat expects the relocated C-band satellite to reach the 111 degrees west geostationary orbital slot in the coming months.
Telesat continues to anticipate full-year 2022 revenues between 740 million and 750 million Canadian dollars.
Telesat is relocating an in-orbit C-band satellite it bought from another operator to the geostationary orbital slot at 111 degrees west.
Telesat continues to expect full-year 2022 adjusted EBITDA between 545 million and 560 million Canadian dollars.
Telesat plans to use SatixFy modems for the landing station antennas needed to connect to its proposed LEO network.
John Vesey has worked closely with industry leaders such as OneWeb, Telesat, and Inmarsat.
John Vesey has worked closely with industry leaders such as OneWeb, Telesat, and Inmarsat.
Ofcom is continuing to review Telesat’s application for an NGSO Earth station network license for its Lightspeed constellation, which plans to operate both gateways and terminals in the Ka-band.
In its May update, Telesat expected to start providing Lightspeed services in 2026.
Canada-based Telesat launched a Lightspeed prototype to low Earth orbit in 2018 on an Indian PSLV rocket.
Amazon and Telesat finalized spectrum arrangements on 2022-09-21 to prevent interference between their planned non-geostationary orbit satellites.
Telesat expects supply issues have added another $250,000,000 to $500,000,000 on top of Lightspeed's original $5,000,000,000 budget.
Blackjack is projected to have 12 satellites, with 10 supplied by Blue Canyon and two supplied by Telesat.
Planet Labs will work with Telesat Government Solutions to build space-based RF terminals that will be hosted on two Earth observation spacecraft.
Relativity announced customers for Terran 1 including Iridium and Telesat.
OneWeb, Telesat, and Amazon are expected to provide LEO service to the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) areas of responsibility in the next few years.
The third technical area selected five teams—Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), Telesat, SpaceLink, Viasat, and Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) LLC, an Amazon subsidiary—to identify critical command and control elements and develop the schema necessary to interface between Space-BACN and commercial partner constellations.
Maxar lost a bid to build Telesat’s Lightspeed LEO constellation.