MDA's own CEO confirmed on the same call that MDA has filed for Canadian spectrum in support of

A new Western-aligned sovereign-LEO entrant with no clean existing thread home (Canada doesn't fit "Non-Western sovereign constellations"' scope) — noted for…

1 in 271 items swept clears the bar·Brief of 9 August 2026, 03:46 UTC

The desk logged this but did not push it. A weak signal sits below the bar for a lead item — it is watched, not yet acted on.