{"id":52354,"date":"2023-11-18T00:31:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mda-starts-work-on-new-constellation-for-undisclosed-customer\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T00:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:31:53","slug":"mda-starts-work-on-new-constellation-for-undisclosed-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mda-starts-work-on-new-constellation-for-undisclosed-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA Starts Work on New Constellation for Undisclosed Customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Canadian manufacturer <b>MDA<\/b> is starting work on a new constellation for an undisclosed customer, the company announced Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was light on details, but MDA received an authorization to proceed for a Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) satellite constellation. The initial contract is worth $180 million, and the full constellation is valued at a minimum of $750 million.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MDA described the constellation as 36 software-defined digital satellites, a new MDA product recently introduced to the market. MDA would be the prime contractor and expects to finalize the full contract in 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MDA recently closed on its acquisition of SatixFy\u2019s digital payload division to enhance its digital satellite product offering. The company has a number of constellation wins in the few years \u2014&nbsp;it\u2019s building the upgraded Globalstar constellation and snagged the Telesat Lightspeed contract away from Thales Alenia Space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian manufacturer MDA is starting work on a new constellation for an undisclosed customer, the company announced Friday.&nbsp; The announcement was light on details, but MDA received an authorization to proceed for a Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) satellite constellation. The initial contract is worth $180 million, and the full constellation is valued at a minimum of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51722,"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-52354","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\/52354"}],"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=52354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}