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Kacific-1 will launch on 2019-12-15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
JCSAT-18 shares a spacecraft bus with Kacific-1, a high-throughput payload from Singaporean startup Kacific.
Kacific-1 will provide coverage to all of the Philippines as part of its Pacific-region coverage.
Kacific has partnered with fleet operator ABS to use ABS’s teleport in the Philippines.
ABS’s teleport in Subic Bay will support Kacific-1, a Ka-band payload that shares a spacecraft bus with Sky Perfect JSAT’s JCSAT-18.
Kacific’s Kacific-1 condosat is scheduled to launch in 2019.
Kacific-1 will launch late 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Kacific-1 features 56 Ka-band spot beams for coverage of Southeast Asia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.
Newtec’s initial hub contract to support Kacific-1 is worth $10,000,000.
Kacific selected Newtec’s Dialog hubs to support the ground segment for its upcoming Kacific-1 satellite.
Kacific had approximately 20 employees and planned to grow to 40 to 45 employees by June to bolster sales, marketing, and technical staff for a network operations center in Singapore.
Kacific has operated an interim connectivity service since 2017 using a network built on Ku-band coverage from other satellites.
Kacific does not intend to place an order for a Kacific-2 satellite before the launch of Kacific-1 but is funding preparatory work for Kacific-2.
Kacific signed an $11,000,000 contract with Kratos Defense and Security Solutions in September to build satellite gateway ground stations.
Kacific and Boeing finalized the Kacific-1 design with 56 beams after a coverage tweak in 2017, down from an originally announced 57 beams.
Customers that signed take-or-pay contracts for Kacific-1 capacity amount to a backlog worth $618,000,000.
Kacific plans a hiring spree to prepare for service across the Asia Pacific ahead of the launch of its first telecom satellite.