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Viasat’s network of high-speed, cost-effective satellites provides quality internet to passengers and crew during all phases of flight.
Viasat’s service allows the ability to stream audio and video content over the world’s most heavily traveled routes, including over water.
The partnership enhances Viasat’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) offering by allowing Viasat Ku-Advanced customers to add their Ku system to their MSP contract.
Viasat offers Ku-Advanced service packages with speeds up to 10 Mbps, rollover of unused data allowances, and regional and hourly service plans.
Viasat Inc. and Honeywell announced a strategic partnership adding Viasat’s VR-12T shipset to Honeywell’s Maintenance Service Plan.
The number of aircraft using Viasat satellite internet services during Viasat’s fiscal year that ended 2020-03-31 totaled 1,390, an increase of 78 aircraft from the prior year.
Viasat is willing to build a consumer broadband constellation of 288 satellites in low Earth orbit if it can obtain a share of a $20,400,000,000 universal broadband fund the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is preparing to roll out later in 2020.
Each satellite in Viasat’s proposed LEO constellation would support 96 gigabits per second of throughput, enabling a collective 27 terabits of internet connectivity.
Viasat reported $2,310,000,000 in annual revenue for the fiscal year, a 12% increase year over year, with a net loss of $200,000 compared with a $67,600,000 loss the prior year.
Viasat reported achieving 100 Mbps download speeds in select geographies but, like competitor Hughes Network Systems, did not demonstrate uploads exceeding 3 Mbps in FCC submissions.
Viasat was the only satellite operator awarded subsidies from the Connect America Fund Phase 2, receiving $122,000,000 from the $1,490,000,000 program the FCC planned to spend from 2018 to 2028.
Viasat is open to building a low Earth orbit constellation of nearly 300 satellites if it can qualify for some of the $20,400,000,000 in broadband subsidies from the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunities Fund.
Viasat’s proposed LEO constellation would provide coverage fanning out 60 degrees north and south of the equator.
Viasat has signed launch contracts with Arianespace, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance to cover all three ViaSat‑3 satellites but has not assigned which provider will launch which spacecraft.
ViaSat‑3 Americas is the first of three high‑throughput broadband satellites under construction with Boeing and is projected to launch in mid‑2021.
Viasat gained FCC approval last month for a medium-Earth-orbit constellation of 20 satellites that the company had not committed to build but had discussed as a possible augmentation to its GEO fleet.
Viasat’s proposed LEO constellation would operate at 1,300 km using Ka- and V-band frequencies recently authorized for the MEO system, according to a 2020-05-26 FCC filing.
Widespread stay‑at‑home orders increased demand for residential broadband and Viasat added 4,000 new subscribers from January to March 2020, reaching 590,000 total subscribers.
Roccor completed radio frequency testing of the antenna scheduled to launch later 2020 on the satellite housing Viasat’s Link 16 military communications terminal.
Viasat selected Blue Canyon Technologies to manufacture the 12-unit XVI cubesat and selected Roccor to supply the antenna.