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Telesat is the fifth customer to sign up to use Blue Origin’s reusable New Glenn launcher.
Airbus Defence and Space and the Thales Alenia Space–Space Systems Loral team completed systems requirements reviews for Telesat’s constellation on 2019-01-24.
New Glenn’s 7-meter fairing provides large mass and volume capabilities intended to match Telesat’s constellation plans and reduce launch costs per satellite.
Loon has agreed to deliver a network operating system design that Telesat can use to support its LEO constellation.
DARPA awarded satellite bus contracts for Blackjack to Airbus, Blue Canyon Technologies, and Telesat.
The Falcon 9 first-stage booster used on the 2019-01-11 mission previously launched in September with Telesat’s Telstar 18 Vantage communications satellite.
Eutelsat has 37 geostationary satellites and Telesat has 17 geostationary satellites, and the two smaller C-Band Alliance members would use capacity on Intelsat and SES satellites to cover for their lost capacity.
Telesat plans to downselect between the Maxar-Thales Alenia Space team and Airbus Defence and Space in the spring of 2019 and has not specified how many of the 300 satellites the winning company will build.
Maxar is on a team with Thales Alenia Space competing to build Telesat’s $3,000,000,000 low-Earth-orbit internet constellation.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Telesat a contract to study the use of commercial buses in the Blackjack experimental low-Earth-orbit constellation program.
Telesat received a $2.8 million, 12-month DARPA study contract announced on 2018-11-27 to assess the utility of Telesat buses.
DARPA’s objective for Blackjack is to achieve economies of scale by developing a pipeline of spacecraft synchronized with the Telesat spacecraft production line to lower spacecraft bus costs.
Telesat received an earlier DARPA contract on 2018-11-16 worth approximately $550,000 to help DARPA better understand commercial commoditized buses and their mechanical, electrical, and network interfaces.
The earlier DARPA contract awarded to Telesat on 2018-11-16 is for four months.
DARPA chose to include a satellite operator in Blackjack to leverage commercial investment in the Telesat LEO constellation.
Telesat received FCC approval last year for a 117-satellite Ka-band constellation.
Telesat awarded study contracts to Airbus Defence and Space and to a team of Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space to evaluate how to build its constellation.
SpaceX previously used the same Block 5 booster for the July launch of Telesat’s Telstar 19 Vantage satellite.
The FCC’s 2018-11-15 meeting docket includes authorizing two NGSO satellite systems by Kepler Communications and LeoSat and modifying existing authorizations for SpaceX and Telesat.
The Federal Communications Commission scheduled a vote for 2018-11-15 on proposed satellite constellations from Kepler Communications and LeoSat and on expansion requests from SpaceX and Telesat.