Canada Invests $85M Into Advanced Satellites to Connect Rural, Remote Regions

Canada Invests $85M Into Advanced Satellites to Connect Rural, Remote Regions
President and CEO of Telesat Dan Goldberg takes part in a press conference in Ottawa on July 24, 2019. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—The federal government is investing $85 million into the development of an advanced satellite technology that could expand access to affordable, high-speed internet across Canada’s hard-to-reach rural and remote regions.

The funding will support a space project by Ottawa-based company Telesat to build a group of co-ordinated satellites—also known as a constellation—in low Earth orbit.