CTV Winnipeg: Manitoba engineer helping to build alternative to Elon Musk’s Starlink

March 26, 2025 —

A University of Manitoba professor is a part of a team hard at work creating a Canadian satellite alternative to Elon Musk’s Starlink network.

Philip Ferguson, an associate professor in the university’s mechanical engineering department, is helping develop the technology at Telesat.

The Ottawa-based company hopes to build a 200-satellite network to support Canada, so those relying on Musk’s Starlink can cut the cord with that company.

To read and watch the entire story, please follow the link to CTV Winnipeg.

Professor Ferguson was also featured in the Winnipeg Free Press, please follow the link to the Free Press.

And on CBC Manitoba’s Up to Speed.

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