Telesat

 ( Cable And Dbs Companies Of Canada ) 

In 2017, Telesat expanded the LEO constellation plan to about 300 satellites, coupled with 50 ground stations across the globe. There would be about 80 polar orbit satellites, with the remainder in inclined orbits, for global coverage, including polar regions. The internet satellite constellation is targeted to have a 30-50 ms latency. The satellites are expected to be around and last 10 years on orbit. The constellation is expected to have a 16-24 Tb/s capacity with 8 Tbit/s (1 TB/s) available for customers.

In 2018, the Phase 1 pathfinder test satellite for the LEO constellation was launched. Various customers and satellite transceiver equipment manufacturers started testing with the satellite.

In 2019, Telesat contracted with Blue Origin on their New Glenn rocket and Relativity Space with their Terran 1 rocket, for satellite launches to their LEO constellation.

In 2020, Telesat filed plans for expanding the satellite count to its LEO constellation to over 1,600 satellites. In November 2020, Telesat announced that it will become publicly traded on the American stock index NASDAQ in mid-2021.

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Telesat carries Canada's two major DBS providers signals: Bell Satellite TV and Shaw Direct, as well as more than 200 of Canada's television channels.

Telesat's Anik F2 carries a Ka band spot beam payload for satellite Internet access for Wildblue users in the United States and Xplornet users in Canada. The KA band system uses spot beams to manage bandwidth concerns, linking to multiple satellite ground stations connected to the Internet.

• Anik A1 – 1972
• Anik A2 – 1973
• Anik A3 – 1975
• Anik B – 1978
• Anik D1 – 1982 – decommissioned 1991
• Anik C3 – 1982
• Anik C2 – 1983 – sold to Paracom S.A. 1993
• Anik D2 – 1984 – sold to GE Americom 1991 and ARABSAT 1993
• Anik C1 – 1985 – sold to Paracom S.A. 1993 and decommissioned 2003
• Anik E2 – 1991
• Anik E1 – 1991
• MSAT-1 – 1996
• Nimiq – 1999
• Anik F1 – 2000
• Nimiq-2 – 2002
• Estrela do Sul 1 (Telstar 14) – 2004
• Anik F2 – 2004
• Anik F1R – 2005
• Anik F3 – 2007
• Telstar 11N – entered service on 31 March 2009 [2]
• Nimiq-4 – 2008
• Nimiq-5 – 2009
• Telstar 14R (Estrela do Sul 2) – 2011 – North solar array did not fully deploy.[3]
• Nimiq-6 – 2012
• Telstar 12V – 2015
• Telesat LEO 1 – 2018
• Telstar 19V – 2018
• Telstar 18V – 2018
• Telesat LEO 3 – 2023

• Telesat corporate website