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Telesat plans to build four teleports in Canada and additional landing station locations in the United States, Latin America, and Asia.
Telesat plans its first Telesat Lightspeed satellite launch in December.
Space Intel Report published an article titled "Canada’s Carney pitches Telesat Lightspeed to the Australian government; Norway and UK are next: Can he make the sale?".
Asit Tandon is Telesat’s chief network and information officer.
Telesat operates a teleport in Mount Jackson, Virginia.
Telesat has acquired land in Estevan, Saskatchewan and in Papineauville, Quebec, and has leased land in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan.
MDA Space’s Satellite Systems revenue in 2025 derived from contracts for Low-Earth Orbit constellations for Globalstar and Telesat Lightspeed.
MDA Space expects capital expenditures of $225 million to $275 million to support the ramp-up of the Telesat Lightspeed production line at its Montreal facility.
Telesat will integrate Spacetime’s dynamic routing, spectrum-aware resource management, and advanced link prediction capabilities with its Lightspeed system design.
Additional significant market participants include Comtech Telecommunications Corp., ST Engineering iDirect Inc., Telesat Inc., Hughes Network Systems LLC, and Speedcast International Ltd.
Telesat designed its Lightspeed network with direct terminal-to-terminal connectivity, an optical mesh, jam-resistant features, and a zero-trust architecture to enable data sovereignty.
Telesat Lightspeed has a backlog of over $1 billion in orders nearly two years before the planned start of service.
Mirna Mekic is Senior Director, User Terminal Segment for the Telesat Lightspeed program and has been at Telesat for five years working on next‑generation LEO satellite technology.
Telesat announced enterprise service agreements with ADN Telecom, Orange, Viasat, and Vocus and a memorandum of understanding with Korea’s Hanwha Systems.
Telesat Lightspeed is designed to integrate into terrestrial telecommunications through 3GPP 5G standards and has adopted Metro Ethernet Forum standards for Carrier Ethernet.
Telesat made a $5 million equity investment in Farcast and will work with Farcast to develop an enterprise-class flat panel antenna user terminal fully integrated with the Telesat Lightspeed modem.
Telesat planned to deploy commercial services by the end of 2027 after moving quickly following delays in production and financing.
Telesat contracted 14 launches on SpaceX Falcon 9, with each Falcon 9 launch carrying roughly 15 of Telesat’s 800-kilogram-class satellites.
Manufacturer MDA Space completed a 180,000-square-foot manufacturing facility to build Telesat satellites at the start of 2026.
Telesat considers Aalyria’s orchestration and network-optimization technologies a key performance and resiliency enabler for the Telesat Lightspeed architecture.