Pacific Dataport is a space-based telecommunications company focused on bridging the digital divide in Alaska by delivering affordable broadband using satellite technology. As a satellite service provider, they offer wholesale middle-mile backhaul services using GEO HTS and LEO satellite networks to various enterprise customers. Key partners include OneWeb and Astranis, with services aimed at telecoms, nonprofits, healthcare facilities, schools, and tribal organizations in Alaska. The company launched its Aurora 4A satellite in 2021 to improve connectivity for rural Alaskan communities.
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Andrea Hulman (Andrea Hulman‑Watsjold) is Aurora Project Engineer at Pacific Dataport and has designed hub infrastructure and customer premise systems to expand broadband across rural Alaska.
Block 2 includes a multi-mission satellite called UtilitySat that will provide interim services for Alaskan telecommunications company Pacific Dataport.
UtilitySat would provide interim services for Alaskan telco Pacific Dataport, which ordered Arcturus for services over Alaska.
Astranis is building a replacement for Pacific Dataport that is slated to launch on an undisclosed dedicated rocket in 2025 as part of a batch of five satellites called Block 3.
Astranis had planned to lease Arcturus to Pacific Dataport to provide at least 7.5 gigabits per second of regional throughput in Ka-band.
UtilitySat is slated to launch with SpaceX before the end of 2023 and will partially serve as an initial replacement for Alaskan telco Pacific Dataport following the failure of its debut spacecraft.
Astranis plans to deploy a full replacement for Pacific Dataport in early 2025 under a commercial arrangement.
UtilitySat is a previously undisclosed Block 2 satellite that can serve as a partial replacement for Arcturus until a dedicated Pacific Dataport satellite can be launched in 2025.
Pacific Dataport Inc’s Arcturus satellite, the first commercial spacecraft built by Astranis, is slated to fly as a secondary payload on a delayed SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch early 2023 alongside Viasat’s ViaSat-3 satellite.
Pacific Dataport Inc plans to use Astranis’s Arcturus satellite to provide broadband coverage over Alaska.
Astranis provides dedicated satellite bandwidth as a service to customers such as Pacific Dataport Inc. to connect people in underserved or hard-to-reach locations.
Pacific Dataport Inc (PDI) is Astranis’ first commercial customer and is preparing to launch its Arcturus satellite on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in spring to provide internet services across Alaska.
Astranis’ first commercial satellite Arcturus is slated to launch in early 2022 for U.S.-based telco Pacific Dataport Inc. (PDI).
Pacific Dataport Inc (PDI) plans to lease capacity from Arcturus to provide internet services across Alaska.
Astranis is building and operating the Arcturus satellite for U.S.-based telco Pacific Dataport Inc (PDI).
Arcturus is Astranis' first commercial satellite that U.S.-based telco Pacific Dataport Inc. (PDI) plans to lease to provide internet services across Alaska.
Pacific Dataport Inc. plans to use the Arcturus satellite as part of the Aurora project to provide rural broadband services in Alaska.
Pacific Dataport Inc. chief executive Chuck Schumann expects the Aurora project to offer service at less than half the cost of OneWeb and to provide more flexibility in total capacity with service available statewide.
Astranis is building its first satellite for Pacific Dataport Inc., which will use the satellite’s capacity to provide internet across Alaska.
Astranis’ first GEO satellite order in 2019 is for a small GEO satellite to be operated for Pacific Dataport to lease capacity for internet in Alaska.