{"id":64460,"date":"2018-07-30T23:47:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-and-ssl-team-up-to-gain-edge-in-telesat-leo-plans\/"},"modified":"2018-07-30T23:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T15:47:52","slug":"thales-alenia-space-and-ssl-team-up-to-gain-edge-in-telesat-leo-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-and-ssl-team-up-to-gain-edge-in-telesat-leo-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space and SSL Team Up to Gain Edge in Telesat LEO Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong>, a joint venture between <strong>Thales<\/strong> and <strong>Leonardo<\/strong>, and <strong>SSL <\/strong>(a <strong>Maxar Technologies<\/strong> company), will pursue the development and manufacture of <strong>Telesat<\/strong>\u2018s global Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation and end-to-end system. In addition, Telesat has awarded the consortium led by Thales Alenia Space for a system design and risk management project for the Telesat LEO constellation.<\/p>\n<p>The three companies will work together on the design of the end-to-end system, including satellites, gateways, user terminals, operations centers, and ground network. Telesat will provide funding during this phase and anticipates selecting a prime contractor \u2014 either the Thales Alenia Space and Maxar consortium or an alternate team \u2014 in mid-2019 for Telesat\u2019s LEO program\u2019s space segment, ground segment, and system integration.<\/p>\n<p>Telesat\u2019s LEO constellation\u2019s capabilities will be available globally, helping to accelerate 5G expansion, provide fiber-like high speed services in rural and remote communities, and establish new levels of performance for commercial and government broadband on land, sea, and in air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, and SSL (a Maxar Technologies company), will pursue the development and manufacture of Telesat\u2018s global Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation and end-to-end system. In addition, Telesat has awarded the consortium led by Thales Alenia Space for a system design and risk management project for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59584,"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-64460","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\/64460"}],"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=64460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}