Telesat President, Dan Goldberg (center) with the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos (left), and CEO of Blue Origin, Bob Smith (right) (Source: Telesat)
Telesat wants 300 satellite pace in low Earth orbit (LEO), which is approximately 2,000 kilometers above the Earth, by 2022.
In fact, it will be using rockets from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin in order to launch its satellites into space. And the constellation’s network operating system is being designed by Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
According to the company, their plans for Phase 1 of the project is complete and that they will soon be conducting demonstrations and live testing.