WASHINGTON — **MDA Space** has been riding fair winds and following seas for two years now and looks likely to be the first to build a volume production facility turning out software-defined satellites.
Its MDA Aurora production is scheduled to be at a rate of two per day by 2026.
The company has used its 200-satellite, $1.55-billion **Telesat Lightspeed** broadband order to anchor the new production capacity, and after more than a year of play name-that-customer, identified **Apple-backed . . .**
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