Telesat teams with Lockheed Martin for satellite interoperability exercise

ARLINGTON, Va. — Telesat U.S. Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ottawa-based satellite operator Telesat, announced today it is now part of the Lockheed Martin team which was recently awarded the Space Transport Layer Tranche 0 contract by the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA). Under the contract, the Lockheed Martin-led team will provide on-orbit delivery of 10 space vehicles with optical inter-satellite links (OISLs), contributing to a total of 20 satellites in Tranche 0. Telesat’s role is to support a commercial interoperability exercise by working with Lockheed Martin to demonstrate interoperability between the OISLs of the SDA’s Transport Layer satellites...