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Maxar Technologies no longer expects, at least initially, to win any manufacturing contracts for Telesat’s planned roughly 300-satellite broadband megaconstellation called Telesat LEO.
Telesat and Airbus Defence and Space have received study contracts to design potential spacecraft buses for Blackjack.
Maxar is evaluating ways to apply the satellite bus it designed for Telesat LEO to other commercial constellations and to defense and intelligence customers.
A procurement decision for the Telesat LEO constellation, originally expected in mid-2019, remains delayed.
DARPA intends that the U.S. Defense Department can modify a Telesat LEO satellite bus to accommodate Blackjack payload inserts and thermal requirements.
Telesat expects its future LEO constellation to start service in 2022.
Maxar received a study contract from Telesat two years ago to design an architecture for the Telesat LEO broadband constellation with then-partner Thales Alenia Space.
DARPA is considering using whatever satellite bus Telesat selects as a potential bus for the Blackjack program.
Project Kuiper joins SpaceX, Telesat, OneWeb, and potentially Viasat in competing to provide high-speed broadband from low Earth orbit using large numbers of satellites.
Global Eagle’s top unsecured creditors include SES ($26,600,000), Intelsat ($9,800,000), Yahsat ($3,600,000), Hughes Network Systems ($3,100,000), Telesat ($2,500,000), Arabsat ($1,000,000), and AsiaSat ($960,000).
Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Claro are estimated to be worthy of $3,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 in subsidized replacement C-band infrastructure and eligible for up to $9,700,000,000 in incentives if they clear customers out of the spectrum by early December 2023.
Eutelsat disclosed the satellite need in its C-band transition plan, a document the FCC required from Eutelsat, Intelsat, SES, Telesat, and Claro by 2020-06-19.
The FCC estimates moving costs for Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Embratel Star One will be $3,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 to cover upgrading ground systems and building and launching replacement satellites.
Telesat’s prototype LEO broadband satellite launched more than two years ago demonstrated latencies of 30–60 milliseconds during testing.
Telesat has not selected a manufacturer to build its full LEO constellation and does not expect to start limited service any sooner than 2022.
The FCC’s accelerated clearing program requires SES, Intelsat, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Embratel Star One to clear the first 120 megahertz of C-band by 2021-12-05.
The FCC voted on 2020-02-28 to proceed with an auction plan that covers spectrum relocation costs for Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Embratel Star One.
Intelsat and SES, working with Eutelsat and Telesat as the C-Band Alliance in 2018, said they would need eight new satellites combined to cede 200 megahertz of spectrum.
EchoStar is expanding into South America using capacity on a Telesat satellite, a Eutelsat satellite, and Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 satellite.
Telesat plans a low-Earth-orbit constellation of 298 internet satellites called Telesat LEO.