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Telesat Wins Phase 2 Space-BACN Contract from DARPA

By Rachel Jewett

Thursday, November 30th, 2023

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Telesat Wins Phase 2 Space-BACN Contract from DARPA

Graphic of DARPA's Space-BACN concept. Image: DARPA

The government subsidiary of Canadian satellite operator Telesat won a Phase 2 contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program. This new award is a follow-on to the Phase 1 contract that Telesat Government Solutions won in August 2022. In Phase 1, 11 companies were selected for work across three technical areas. Space-BACN is a DoD program to foster interoperable technologies that can enable seamless communication between government and commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. In Phase…

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