![]() Pushing forward with its plans across verticals, Telesat this week formalized an agreement with secure government connectivity provider Artel, making Artel the first reseller distribution partner for Lightspeed services to the US government.Īnuvu, meanwhile, believes that its new QEST-made, dual-panel gimbaled Ka-band antenna, unveiled just in advance of APEX and showcased at the event (as pictured), will be fully compatible with Lightspeed, which will boast optical inter-satellite links, and generally will be able to accommodate LEO, as well as any Ka satellites that comprise its own forthcoming eight-satellite microGEO constellation. We continue to believe that we will have greater clarity on the financing of the program around year end and that Telesat Lightspeed represents a transformative growth opportunity for the company and a highly compelling value proposition for the communications enterprise user community,” said Telesat president and CEO Dan Goldberg. “In the quarter we progressed discussions with our suppliers and financing sources on Telesat Lightspeed, our revolutionary planned Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. In releasing its third quarter earnings on 8 November, Telesat said it is advancing in its efforts to fully finance Lightspeed. But Telesat does have a really good design and we’re excited about that. And so, we’re maintaining a good amount of optionality in the marketplace. We’ve been a Eutelsat partner for a long time and Eutelsat is now taking over OneWeb, so we’ve engaged with them even on second generation of OneWeb, what’s it going to look like, how the technical specs are going to work for the market. We have a very close relationship with Eutelsat. ![]() So, we are seeing the announcements with Panasonic and… OneWeb. And we are maintaining conversations with all of them.” So, we’re not ignoring the other constellations as well. We’ve always looked at a lot of constellations in the marketplace, though. So, we are eagerly waiting for that constellation to be built and them to resolve all the things they need, all the classic roadblocks that are needed in order to get that constellation built. “They need to build the constellation, at the end of the day. We are still moving along with them,” Anuvu EVP connectivity Mike Pigott told RGN at the APEX/IFSA Exhibition in Long Beach. “e think Telesat from day one got the best design, like they picked the right criteria it just lined up for the marketplace. Anuvu remains “super excited” to tap into Telesat’s Lightspeed Ka-band LEO constellation when it comes to fruition, but is also eyeing other constellations, including OneWeb’s second generation network, as it seeks to advance its multi-orbit plan for aero and maritime.
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