Hughes, primarily operating through Hughes Network Systems, is a major provider of broadband satellite services and managed network solutions. They design and manufacture satellite terminals, including innovative electronically steerable antennas (ESAs) for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations like OneWeb. Hughes partners with companies like Eutelsat and provides services to enterprises, governments, and airlines, including in-flight connectivity, and works with the U.S. Air Force. Key products and services include the HughesNet internet service, JUPITER System, and managed LEO services.
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Hughes, in partnership with Facebook, operates more than 1,000 Wi‑Fi hotspots across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru.
EchoStar added 39,000 new subscribers in its Hughes Network Services business during the first three months of 2020, bringing total subscribers to 1.52 million.
Unsecured creditors listed in OneWeb's filing include Qualcomm Technologies ($8,000,000), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu ($6,900,000), Hughes Network Systems ($5,400,000), Deutsche Bank ($5,200,000), Viasat ($1,200,000), Nokia ($988,000), Rockwell Collins ($597,000), USSI Global ($501,000), Ruag ($328,000), and KSAT ($117,000).
Three members of the Satellite Industry Association—AT&T, EchoStar, and Hughes—agreed to participate in the FCC’s Keep Americans Connected initiative announced on 2020-03-13.
Hughes is deciding who will launch its Jupiter-3 satellite in 2021.
Hughes provides services in seven countries across Central and South America and has 237,000 international subscribers.
Hughes’ Express Wi-Fi community service has been deployed in 800 locations and is expanding in partnership with Facebook.
Hughes Network Services generated $1,850,000,000 of EchoStar’s $1,890,000,000 in 2019 revenue.
Hughes Network Systems, which was spun off from DirecTV in 2005, owns Spaceway-3 and uses it to provide internet connectivity to customers in North America.
The Chinese company poised to invest in Cloud Constellation was Hong Kong-based HCH Group, a former Hughes Network Systems subsidiary spun off in 2013.
SES demonstrated switching between MEO and GEO satellites on 2019-10-23 on a flight from Florida to Nicaragua using Thales FlytLIVE, a Hughes Network Systems modem, and a ThinKom phased array antenna.
Hughes won an $11,800,000 contract in July to help the U.S. Army improve satellite communications resiliency and interoperability.
The 1995 failure of a Chinese Long March 2E carrying Apstar-6 and the 1996 failure of a Long March 3B carrying Intelsat-708 led to a U.S. crackdown on satellite technology exports involving Loral and Hughes.
Maxar Technologies equates the 500-Gbps Jupiter-3 satellite ordered by Hughes Network Systems to building three regular GEO satellite orders.
Hughes’ satellite-enabled community Wi-Fi hotspots have reached more than 25 million people.
Facebook partnered with Hughes Network Systems to launch a satellite-enabled Wi-Fi hotspot service in Colombia.
Hughes Network Systems’ Jupiter-3 and Eutelsat Communications’ Konnect VHTS are the next-highest-capacity geostationary systems under development and are expected to provide about 500 gigabits per second of capacity when they launch in 2021.
Only Viasat, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Hughes have announced plans for geostationary satellites with higher amounts of capacity than 300 Gbps.
EchoStar completed a share exchange agreement with Dish in early 2017 in which EchoStar traded its EchoStar Technologies business for all of Dish’s Hughes Retail Preferred Tracking Stock.
Hughes Network Systems generated $1,717,000,000 of EchoStar’s $2,091,000,000 in revenue last year.