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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.
Canada-based Telesat launched a Lightspeed prototype to low Earth orbit in 2018 on an Indian PSLV rocket.
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.
In its May update, Telesat expected to start providing Lightspeed services in 2026.
Amazon and Telesat finalized spectrum arrangements on 2022-09-21 to prevent interference between their planned non-geostationary orbit satellites.
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.
LEO rivals Amazon Kuiper, OneWeb, and Telesat cannot provide services in the required areas.
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.
One of Telesat’s ITU filings for the Lightspeed project, relating to 72 satellites, requires 10% of the satellites in assigned orbits by 2023-01-01 and 50% by 2026-01-01.
Telesat expects to lose around one third of Anik F2’s revenue in 2024 if mitigation techniques are unsuccessful.
Telesat reduced the proposed Lightspeed constellation by one third to 198 satellites to stay within a $5,000,000,000 budget.
Telesat expects Anik F2 revenues to decline beginning in 2024 if the company cannot find alternative ways to support affected services.
Telesat has lined up about 4.2 billion Canadian dollars to fund Telesat Lightspeed from existing financial resources and Canadian government funding.
Telesat was forced to retire its Anik F2 satellite from full service three years earlier than planned in 2023.
Telesat originally expected to provide station-kept service from Anik F2 until 2025 but can now maintain station-kept service only until the end of 2023.