{"id":52778,"date":"2023-09-11T20:50:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telesat-orders-14-spacex-launches-for-lightspeed-mda-looks-for-laser-vendor\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T20:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T12:50:38","slug":"telesat-orders-14-spacex-launches-for-lightspeed-mda-looks-for-laser-vendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telesat-orders-14-spacex-launches-for-lightspeed-mda-looks-for-laser-vendor\/","title":{"rendered":"Telesat Orders 14 SpaceX Launches for Lightspeed, MDA Looks for Laser Vendor"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>After finalizing funding and switching manufacturers, <strong>Telesat<\/strong> is ramping up activities on its Lightspeed constellation. The operator announced a contract for 14 <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon 9 launches on Monday, and CEO Dan Goldberg teased a future laser terminal deal at World Satellite Business Week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The launch campaign with SpaceX is scheduled to kick off in 2026, so Telesat can begin providing service in 2027. Each launch will carry 14 Lightspeed satellites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is another instance of SpaceX launching a broadband Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) competitor for its Starlink constellation after launching for OneWeb in the past. While Telesat is not targeting direct-to-consumer business, the constellations will compete in enterprise markets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith growing demand for high-speed internet around the world, SpaceX is proud to launch and deploy Telesat\u2019s Lightspeed constellation,\u201d commented SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell. \u201cBuilding upon our successful launch partnership to-date, we look forward to flying Telesat once again as they expand connectivity capabilities for their customers across the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Telesat recently switched gears with its constellation, going with MDA for its manufacturer. Goldberg said the switch is giving Telesat a better price and more advanced capabilities with MDA\u2019s beam-forming technology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said on a panel Monday at World Satellite Business Week that MDA is trying to procure 800 optical terminals for the constellation.&nbsp;It will be the largest order of optical terminals yet, Goldberg said, adding the MDA is looking at a number of options.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finalizing funding and switching manufacturers, Telesat is ramping up activities on its Lightspeed constellation. The operator announced a contract for 14 SpaceX Falcon 9 launches on Monday, and CEO Dan Goldberg teased a future laser terminal deal at World Satellite Business Week.&nbsp; The launch campaign with SpaceX is scheduled to kick off in 2026, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52779,"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-52778","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\/52778"}],"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=52778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}