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Telesat Signs LEO Agreements With Blue Origin, Loon

Telesat signed agreements with launch company Blue Origin and Alphabet's Loon for work on its planned low earth orbit broadband satellite constellation, it said Thursday (here and here). Telesat said it will modify Loon's software-defined network platform for its satellites'…

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use, and Blue Origin's New Glenn rockets will be used for deployment under the two companies' multi-launch agreement. Telesat said last week it was talking to two separate companies -- Airbus and a consortium of Maxar and Thales Alenia -- about constellation system design.