{"id":49712,"date":"2025-02-11T01:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T17:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mda-space-receives-768m-contract-to-manufacture-satellites-for-globalstars-new-leo-constellation\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T01:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T17:51:17","slug":"mda-space-receives-768m-contract-to-manufacture-satellites-for-globalstars-new-leo-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mda-space-receives-768m-contract-to-manufacture-satellites-for-globalstars-new-leo-constellation\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA Space Receives $768M Contract to Manufacture Satellites for Globalstar\u2019s New LEO Constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>MDA Space<\/b> signed a $1.1 billion Canadian dollar ($768 million) contract with <b>Globalstar <\/b>to be the prime contractor for the operator\u2019s next generation Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, MDA Space announced Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p>MDA Space will manufacture more than 50 MDA Aurora software-defined digital satellites for Globalstar. This announcement comes after Apple announced an investment of $1.5 billion in Globalstar in late 2024 to fund an additional new constellation for expanded satellite direct-to-cell services.<\/p>\n<p>This news means that Globalstar is MDA Space\u2019s previously undisclosed customer for the initial contract announced in November 2023. The initial contract was worth $180 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to once again be working with Globalstar as they develop their next generation LEO constellation,\u201d said Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA Space. \u201cWith the full contract now in place, we are moving full speed ahead on the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MDA Space is already building a 17-satellite constellation refresh for Globalstar, contracted in February 2022. The satellites are expected to launch by the end of 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDA Space signed a $1.1 billion Canadian dollar ($768 million) contract with Globalstar to be the prime contractor for the operator\u2019s next generation Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, MDA Space announced Feb. 10. MDA Space will manufacture more than 50 MDA Aurora software-defined digital satellites for Globalstar. This announcement comes after Apple announced an investment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}