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In late 2022 the U.S. Export-Import Bank approved $407,000,000 in financing for the launch by SpaceX and United Launch Alliance of two ViaSat-3 satellites through Viasat’s United Kingdom subsidiary.
An omnibus spending bill signed into law in December 2019 authorized the Export-Import Bank of the United States for seven years, the longest reauthorization in the bank’s history.
The omnibus bill provides the Export-Import Bank its longest authorization period in the agency's history at seven years.
The confirmations created a quorum of three members on the Export-Import Bank’s five-person board for the first time since the bank’s charter was reauthorized in late 2015.