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Isotropic Systems completed live over-the-air field tests with Telesat at the Allan Park Teleport in Ontario, Canada on 22 March 2022.
Isotropic Systems’ multi-link terminal tracked and passed bi-directional traffic to Telesat’s Phase 1 Low Earth Orbit satellite while simultaneously connected to a Geostationary Earth Orbit satellite link.
Nine founding members of Space Canada include Calian, GHGSat, Magellan Aerospace, Maritime Launch Services, MDA, Mission Control, NorthStar Earth & Space, SpaceBridge, and Telesat.
Dan Goldberg, CEO of Telesat, chairs the inaugural Board of Directors of Space Canada.
Telesat announced separate 2019 contracts with Blue Origin and Relativity Space for an unspecified number of New Glenn and Terran 1 launches for Lightspeed.
Telesat selected Thales Alenia Space of France and Italy in February 2021 as prime contractor for the 298-satellite Lightspeed constellation.
Telesat received commitments for about two-thirds of the Lightspeed network’s projected $5,000,000,000 cost, including about $1,150,000,000 from the Canadian government.
Telesat planned to supplement the initial 188 satellites with another 110 satellites to reach the full 298-satellite Lightspeed constellation.
Telesat expected to begin launching Lightspeed in 2025 and to enter global commercial service in 2026 if program timelines unfolded as anticipated.
Telesat’s 2021 revenues 2021-12-04% compared with 2020 when adjusted for foreign exchange rates.
Telesat reported 758 million Canadian dollars in revenues for 2021, equal to $602,000,000.
Telesat’s net income for 2021 was 158 million Canadian dollars compared with 246 million Canadian dollars for 2020.
Intellian’s reference enterprise user terminals are designed to provide Telesat’s most demanding customers with highly reliable, high-throughput access to the Telesat Lightspeed network.
Canadian satellite operator Telesat contracted SatixFy to provide modems for 288 landing station antennas envisioned for the Telesat Lightspeed low Earth orbit broadband constellation.
Cobham SATCOM built the landing station used to test the Telesat Phase 1 prototype that was launched to LEO in January 2018.
Telesat no longer expects to be able to deploy half of its planned constellation by 2023-11-03, and will need an extension to meet regulatory commitments with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
The agreement between Telesat and Cobham SATCOM includes an option to deploy more than 30 landing stations if demand requires it.
Telesat has not yet fully secured the final $2,000,000,000 of the LEO constellation’s total $5,000,000,000 cost.
Telesat’s LEO constellation is being designed with optical inter-satellite links to reduce reliance on ground infrastructure for landing traffic.
Landing stations that can connect to Telesat’s planned low Earth orbit broadband network will start being built in spring 2023.