An All.Space Hydra 2 terminal mounted on a Defender vehicle. Photo: All.Space

Telesat and terminal developer All.Space have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to integrate All.Space’s user terminals with the Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network. 

The goal of this co-development is to ensure that All.Space terminals deployed today, including to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army will be able to access the Telesat Lightspeed LEO network when it is live in late 2027. The two companies plan to collaborate on joint customer use-case evaluations and field demonstrations utilizing Telesat’s LEO 3 demonstration satellite.

The two companies have worked together going back to when All.Space was known as Isotropic Systems, and completed antenna tests in 202. 

Development efforts announced Tuesday will include All.Space’s recently announced Hydra-2 MAX terminal that maintains two simultaneous satellite connections with commercial and military Ka-band spacecraft across orbits. The Hydra MAX terminal is a new offering from All.Space that is designed to hold wideband connections on two or more independent Ka-band satellite networks at the same time — including Amazon Kuiper, Telesat Lightspeed, and the ViaSat-3 network. 

It also includes the advanced Hydra-4 MAX MilSatCom terminal that is designed to connect to four satellites simultaneously by combining a Hydra-2 MAX terminal, a Ku-band terminal, and a global L-band antenna into a single chassis.

“As the Department of Defense pursues proliferated architectures for assured connectivity, secure, ruggedized multi-band and multi-orbit terminals provide increased flexibility and resiliency in the congested and contested battlespace,” commented Chuck Cynamon, president of Telesat Government Solutions. “The combination of our secure, advanced Telesat Lightspeed services and innovative All.Space terminals will increase operational advantage for the DoD in the digital battlespace.”