Telesat Corporation
A satellite operator headquartered in Ottawa that runs a fleet of geostationary satellites beaming television, broadband, and government communications across the globe, and is building a new low-Earth-orbit constellation called Telesat Lightspeed. It was created by a 1969 act of the Canadian Parliament to connect the country's far-flung regions, and its first satellite, Anik A1, launched in 1972, was the world's first domestic communications satellite in geostationary orbit. The name "Anik" means "brother" in Inuktitut, chosen through a national contest whose judging panel included famed communications theorist Marshall McLuhan.