MDA Space: 2-sats-per-day plant opens by December, but Telesat, Globalstar production to start slowly

by Peter B. de Selding

TUPPER LAKE, NY — With four LEO constellations totaling some 350 satellites under contract and a two-satellites-per-day factory opening by December, Canada’s MDA Space is benefitting from a flywheel effect that will make it difficult for any other merchant satellite manufacturer to compete.

Whether any other companies will want to enter the costly LEO broadband space already occupied by Starlink, Amazon’s future Project Kuiper, Eutelsat’s now European Commission-flagged OneWeb and two Chinese constellations

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