PARIS — Telesat detailed the commitment from the Canadian government to the company’s LEO broadband project that will total about $1 billion over 10 years pending finalization of an agreement.
The funding is expected to arrive in three separate tranches totaling 1.285 billion Canadian dollars ($981 million):
— 85 million Canadian dollars to offset Telesat’s early development costs for the LEO project, including the launch of around a dozen demonstration satellites.
— 600 million Canadian dollars in government contributions to the project over . . .
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