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Maxar-Thales Alenia Space Consortium Reaches Significant Milestone for Telesat“™s LEO Satellite Constellation

Maxar-Thales Alenia Space Consortium Reaches Significant Milestone for Telesat“™s LEO Satellite Constellation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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Maxar-Thales Alenia Space Consortium Reaches Significant Milestone for Telesat“™s LEO Satellite Constellation - top government contractors - best government contracting event

The Maxar and Thales Alenia Space Consortium has advanced its detailed and low-risk designs for Telesat“™s LEO system, including system optimization, engineering trade-offs, requirements development and technology prototyping to establish compelling and mature designs for Telesat LEO“™s space, ground and user terminal segments, Maxar announced on Monday.

“Together with Maxar, we bring a strong expertise in integrated systems, high throughout payloads, advanced antennas and processors, as well as production heritage for constellations of high technology satellites,“ said Martin Van Schaik, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing Thales Alenia Space. “We are confident to enable Telesat LEO to deliver low-risk, breakthrough performance and affordability dedicated to broadband services around the world,“ he added.

Telesat selected Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies based on the companies“™ proven experience, industrial capability and a strong supplier base for fully integrated communications satellite systems in July 2018. Advancing and developing the designs for Telesat“™s LEO system is the result of effective teamwork between Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies.

“Achieving this milestone demonstrates the success of Maxar“™s close collaboration with Thales Alenia Space and highlights the progress we“™ve made in our innovative and low-risk design for Telesat“™s LEO constellation,“ said Megan Fitzgerald, Maxar“™s SVP and general manager of Space Solutions. “Our solution leverages both Maxar and Thales Alenia Space“™s experience in building LEO constellations and also integrates advanced technologies from Maxar“™s MDA business.“

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Written by William McCormick

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