Telesat’s T-19 Vantage broadband satellite has battery issue; Loral updates on LEO Lightspeed financing

by Peter B. de Selding

UPDATE March 17: This story was updated to reflect the fact that Eutelsat, Intelsat and SES, which have C-band business in Canada, are expecting an equitable distribution of any proceeds generated from the C-band repurposing.

PARIS — Telesat’s T-19 Vantage satellite has suffered multiple failures of a battery-support component that, if compounded by further failures, could prevent the satellite from full operations during the two eclipse periods, with a combined duration of about three months per year.

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