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The prototype LEO satellite that Surrey Satellite Technology Limited built for Telesat launched in January on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Telesat awarded a similar constellation design contract on 2018-07-30 to a team of Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space.
Telesat LEO will provide multiple terabits per second of Ka-band broadband connectivity.
Telesat anticipates selecting a manufacturer for its LEO broadband constellation in mid-2019.
Telesat is testing a prototype satellite from Surrey Satellite Technology Limited that launched in January on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Telesat selected Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies’ Space Systems Loral division on 2018-07-30 to collaborate on the design of its low Earth orbit broadband satellite constellation.
The design collaboration positions Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies as a team that could ultimately build Telesat’s 117-satellite system and accompanying ground segment if Telesat makes a manufacturing award in mid-2019.
Telesat’s planned LEO constellation will offer multiple terabits of secure throughput with latency low enough to rival fiber.
Telesat revised its schedule and now plans to have its LEO constellation in service in 2022 instead of 2021.
SSL, working with the University of Toronto’s Space Flight Laboratory, built one of two prototype LEO satellites for Canadian fleet operator Telesat that was lost in a November Soyuz launch failure.
Telstar-19 Vantage is the first of two SSL-built satellites that SpaceX is launching for Telesat in the year of the launch.
Telesat is positioning Telstar-19 Vantage at 63 degrees West, the same orbital slot occupied by its seven-year-old Ku-band Telstar-14R satellite.
Telesat is preparing a constellation of 117 low-Earth-orbit spacecraft for high-speed broadband service planned for 2022.
SpaceX launched the Telstar 19 Vantage telecom satellite for Telesat on 2018-07-22 using a Block 5 Falcon 9 rocket.
Telesat’s LEO constellation is expected to enter service in 2022.
Ontario pledged up to CA$20,000,000 in its 2018 budget to support Telesat’s LEO satellite constellation.
MDA is interested in opportunities to provide components or services for Telesat’s LEO constellation.
Telesat has one demonstration satellite already in orbit that was launched 2018-01-12 on India’s PSLV rocket.
Telesat will provide HTS capacity over Asia with Telstar-18 Vantage/Apstar-5C, a satellite shared with APT Satellite of Hong Kong.
Telesat LEO plans to incorporate satellite-to-satellite links on its future constellation.