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LeoSat intends to seek competing bids for launches and prefers launching an entire orbital plane or ring of satellites with one rocket.
LeoSat began working with Thales Alenia Space in 2014 to design a constellation of up to 108 low Earth orbit satellites intended to provide connectivity with large volumes of low-latency capacity for premium customers.
Hispasat and Sky Perfect Jsat made equal, undisclosed investments toward LeoSat’s Series A, which was downsized from $100,000,000 to $50 million, and reneged on a plan to increase their investments.
LeoSat has doubled the planned throughput of each satellite to over 60 gigabits per second on both downlink and uplink.
LeoSat plans to operate 84 satellites in low Earth orbit arranged in six orbital planes of 14 satellites each.
LeoSat’s six-plane, 14-satellite-per-plane architecture would produce two satellites visible from any point on Earth, including the equator.
LeoSat originally planned to launch two demonstration satellites 2019 to fulfill ITU requirements but abandoned those plans in favor of a less expensive ground-based technology-validation effort.
Efficient launch plans and cheaper manufacturing could reduce LeoSat’s constellation cost below $3,000,000,000.
If LeoSat and a manufacturing partner can reduce satellite mass to 800 kg, an entire orbital plane’s worth of satellites would probably fit on a single SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
LeoSat holds $2,000,000,000 worth of letters of intent from customers ready to use the LeoSat constellation once it is operational.
LeoSat has not ruled out hiring Thales Alenia Space to build its scaled-down constellation while also seeking bids from other manufacturers.
LeoSat is seeking competing bids beyond design partner Thales Alenia Space to build a smaller constellation of lighter satellites.
Choosing a manufacturer whose ITU filing expires at a later bring-into-use date would alleviate LeoSat’s January 2021 deadline pressure.
LeoSat faces a January 2021 deadline to launch at least one satellite to secure spectrum for the whole constellation through the International Telecommunication Union.
LeoSat intended to reduce the constellation’s projected $3,500,000,000 price tag to close to $3,000,000,000 under pressure from investors Hispasat and Sky Perfect Jsat.
Thales Alenia Space is a frontrunner to build LeoSat’s constellation of 84 to 108 broadband satellites.
LeoSat is working with manufacturing partners to finalize a low Earth orbit broadband constellation design.
LeoSat is developing a constellation planned to consist of 84 to 108 satellites.
LeoSat CEO Mark Rigolle considers that strict deployment milestones could force firms to rework satellites after discovering a generic flaw, halt production chains, cause missed milestones, and lead regulators to mathematically reduce an authorized constellation size.
LeoSat proposed a constellation of 108 satellites operating at 1,400 km.