Telesat reports results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026

OTTAWA, Canada, Aug. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Telesat (Nasdaq and TSX: TSAT), one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, today announced its financial results for the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2026. All amounts are in Canadian dollars and reported under IFRS® Accounting Standards unless otherwise noted.

“It’s been an eventful past few months for Telesat and I’m very pleased with the rapid progress the company is making and the strong traction we’re seeing with customers for Telesat Lightspeed,” commented Dan Goldberg, Telesat’s President and CEO. “In our LEO business, the most significant highlight was the announcement last week that we signed a $2.7 billion contract, including option periods, with the Government of Canada under the ESCP-P program to deliver secure Military Ka-band Arctic connectivity to the Canadian Armed Forces. As a result of this initial ESCP-P contract, we announced the expansion of the Telesat Lightspeed satellite constellation to 225 satellites, a 44% increase over our prior plan, which positions us to accelerate the growth of our LEO business while serving the evolving and mission critical requirements of defence and commercial customers. Telesat Lightspeed is fully funded and we remain on track to commence global commercial service around the end of Q1 2028.”

“In our GEO business, our efforts to drive resilient cash flow from our existing GEO satellite fleet resulted in contract signings that led to a sequential expansion of our GEO backlog. We continue to be focused on maintaining strict cost discipline to mitigate revenue pressures. We were pleased to see the release of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s Upper C-Band Report and Order last month, under the terms of which we are scheduled to receive US$189 million in incentive payments as part of the process of repurposing 160 MHz of C-Band satellite spectrum for terrestrial wireless use.”

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“Finally, we continue to work to optimize the company’s capital structure and toward refinancing the Telesat GEO debt that starts to mature later this year. We recently borrowed US$120 million to be used for general corporate purposes at a subsidiary of Telesat GEO, providing us with further financial resources to support the business.”

For the quarter ended June 30, 2026, Telesat reported consolidated revenue of $79 million, a decrease of 25% ($27 million) compared to the prior year, and adjusted EBITDA 1 of $22 million, a decrease of 62% ($37 million) from the second quarter of 2025. Excluding the impact of higher expenses related to our Telesat GEO debt refinancing process, adjusted EBITDA decreased 45%. Telesat net loss for the quarter was $559 million compared to a $76 million gain in the prior year. The net loss was primarily due to non-cash losses associated with an increase in the fair value of the Telesat Lightspeed Financing Warrants and, owing to a weakening of the Canadian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar, an increase in the Canadian dollar value of our U.S.