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DIRECTV Latin America has an established market presence in its operating countries that can facilitate commercial implementation.
DirecTV’s T16 geostationary satellite, launched in 2019, is likely to be DirecTV’s last GEO satellite.
The SIA Board of Directors elected Stacy Fuller of DIRECTV as Vice Chair for 2026.
Stacy Fuller is Senior Vice President of External Affairs at DIRECTV.
Stacy Fuller oversees all federal, state, and local legislative and regulatory issues impacting DIRECTV.
The proposed transaction would have had DirecTV buy Dish parent company Dish DBS, which owns Sling TV, for $1 while taking on roughly $9,750,000,000 of debt.
The 17.3–17.8 GHz band is currently used by DirecTV and EchoStar’s Dish for DBS/DTH transmissions from geostationary satellites.
Charlie Ergen’s DISH Network, now part of EchoStar, is open to merging with AT&T’s DirecTV.
SpaceX, OneWeb, and DirecTV filed regulatory comments with the FCC expressing concern about potential interference from opening the 12 GHz band to high-powered, two-way fixed broadband services and called for thorough technical studies.
The s100N and s130N will be dual Ka-band for the US and Ku-band for the Mediterranean and will be TV receive-only antenna systems that support DIRECTV and DishNET reception.
DIRECTV will provide TV channel distribution for JetBlue’s A220 aircraft via Viasat’s Ka-band antenna.
A single Viasat high-capacity Ka-band satellite antenna will power both in-flight connectivity and TV channel distribution provided by DIRECTV for JetBlue A220 aircraft.
David Pattillo spent more than 20 years at DIRECTV where he was Director of the Space & Communications Group.
DirecTV originally planned to leave Spaceway-1 at 300 km above the geostationary arc but later increased the planned altitude to 500 km, possibly to consume or vent more fuel.
DirecTV’s Spaceway-1 satellite began relocating from the geostationary arc on 2020-01-29.
DirecTV told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that the company needs to decommission Spaceway-1 by 2020-02-25 to avoid the risk of an explosion.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved DirecTV’s 2020-01-19 request to relocate Spaceway-1 into a graveyard orbit above GEO and deferred a decision on allowing the operator to forgo expelling the satellite’s remaining onboard fuel before permanent shutdown.
DirecTV filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that using the battery becomes unavoidable when Spaceway-1 starts experiencing eclipses in geostationary orbit in late February, creating a risk of catastrophic battery failure if the satellite is not relocated and decommissioned by then.
DirecTV’s satellites are currently flown by Intelsat, which operates around 50 geostationary communications satellites.
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.