スカパーJSAT株式会社
SKY Perfect JSAT Group is a Japanese satellite operator and Asia's largest provider of multi-channel pay TV and satellite communications services. It operates a fleet of geostationary communication satellites, providing services like video distribution, data transfer, and back-up communication across Asia, Oceania, Russia, the Middle East, and North America. They also offer ground station services and are expanding into new areas like space intelligence and services for LEO satellites, collaborating with partners like Intelsat, ESA, and JAXA.
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Sky Perfect JSAT’s JCSAT-18 payload will provide Ku- and Ka-band capacity over large parts of the Asia-Pacific, including Russia’s Far East.
JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 is a 6,800-kilogram condominium satellite built by Boeing with distinct payloads for Sky Perfect JSAT and Kacific.
Sky Perfect JSAT has its own JCSAT-18 communications payloads on the other half of the shared Boeing 702-MP satellite bus.
Kacific-1 uses a Boeing 702-MP spacecraft bus that is shared with Japanese operator Sky Perfect JSAT.
LeoSat anticipated that Hispasat and Sky Perfect Jsat would complete LeoSat’s $50,000,000 Series A after each made initial investments, with Jsat investing in 2017 and Hispasat investing in 2018, but neither completed the funding.
Hispasat and Sky Perfect Jsat made equal, undisclosed investments toward LeoSat’s Series A, which was downsized from $100,000,000 to $50 million, and reneged on a plan to increase their investments.
LeoSat intended to reduce the constellation’s projected $3,500,000,000 price tag to close to $3,000,000,000 under pressure from investors Hispasat and Sky Perfect Jsat.
Sky Perfect JSAT reported total consolidated revenue of 164,000,000,000 JPY for fiscal 2018 after subtracting consolidated eliminations.
Sky Perfect JSAT partnered with U.S.-based Elefante Group to study deployment of stratospheric airships to provide high-capacity links for future 0.005 kg networks.
Sky Perfect JSAT has lost more than half a million satellite television subscribers since 2013 when its SKY PerfecTV! business reached 3.83 million subscribers.
Sky Perfect JSAT reported 101,500,000,000 JPY in fiscal 2018 revenue from its Media Business division, representing 56.7% of the company's overall revenues.
Sky Perfect JSAT tallied 3.25 million subscribers for its SKY PerfecTV! satellite broadcasting business as of 2018-03-31 when its fiscal 2018 concluded.
Sky Perfect JSAT reported 73,400,000,000 JPY in fiscal 2018 revenue from its Space Business division, representing 43.3% of the company's overall revenues.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency agreed to transfer a 50-kilogram demonstration satellite SDS-4 to Sky Perfect JSAT.
Sky Perfect JSAT expects Asia-Pacific high-throughput satellite revenues to reach $2,500,000,000 by the company's fiscal year 2027.
Sky Perfect JSAT expects its SKY PerfecTV! subscriber base to shrink by 66,000 in fiscal 2019.
Sky Perfect JSAT invested undisclosed amounts in Planet in December and in geospatial analytics firm Orbital Insight in January.
SDS-4 will be Sky Perfect JSAT’s first low-Earth orbit satellite, joining the company’s fleet of 17 geostationary spacecraft.
Arianespace launched Sky Perfect JSAT’s first high-throughput satellite Horizons-3e on an Ariane 5 rocket in 2017.
Sky Perfect JSAT participated in a $4,500,000 capital raise completed in March by Challenergy, a Tokyo startup designing wind turbines that can survive typhoons.