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Feds to lend Telesat $2.14B to help finance Lightspeed LEO satellite program
The federal government has agreed to lend Telesat $2.14 billion to help finance the Ottawa-based telecommunications equipment provider’s low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation, the company announced Monday.