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MDA will build a digital beam-forming antenna, the spacecraft bus, and an onboard processor of its own design for Lightspeed rather than leveraging Thales Alenia Space’s antenna design.
Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg expects mass production of MDA-built Lightspeed satellites to begin in the middle of the second half of 2025.
Telesat’s move to MDA’s smaller satellite design has reduced the constellation cost by approximately $2,000,000,000.
On 2023-09-11 in Paris, MDA introduced a new software-defined digital satellite product line at World Satellite Business Week.
MDA is attempting to procure 800 optical terminals for the Lightspeed constellation.
Telesat ordered 198 satellites from MDA after announcing funding commitments for 156 of them.
MDA contracted on 2023-08-11 to deliver 198 satellites for Telesat’s Lightspeed constellation with launches starting in mid-2026.
Telesat switched satellite suppliers to MDA after supply chain issues caused delays for a constellation it initially planned to start launching in 2020.
MDA is using Rocket Lab to supply chassis for the spacecraft ordered by Globalstar.
Globalstar will pay a total $64,000,000 to launch the first set of satellites ordered last year from MDA.
Globalstar’s $327,000,000 contract with MDA covered 17 satellites with deliveries anticipated in 2025.
Globalstar’s $327,000,000 contract with MDA covered 17 satellites with deliveries anticipated in 2025.
Globalstar will pay a total $64,000,000 to launch the first set of satellites ordered from MDA.
Globalstar’s manufacturing contract with MDA includes an option for up to nine additional satellites at $11,400,000 each.
MDA signed a definitive agreement to acquire SatixFy Space Systems UK Ltd., the digital payload division of SatixFy Communications Ltd., and other strategic considerations.
The transaction for MDA's acquisition of SatixFy Space Systems UK Ltd. is valued at US$40,000,000.
MDA is using Rocket Lab to supply chassis for the spacecraft ordered by Globalstar.
The SSS team will collaborate with MDA’s Satellite Systems business in Montreal to advance MDA’s new digital satellite product offering and add complementary digital payload expertise and capacity.
MDA is spending $40,000,000 to buy SatixFy Space Systems UK Ltd.
MDA won a $1,600,000,000 contract to build 198 low Earth orbit satellites for Telesat.