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A batch of four Astranis Block-2 satellites is slated to launch 2024 on a dedicated SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Astranis plans to deploy more than 20 satellites over the next three years.
Astranis had planned to lease Arcturus to Pacific Dataport to provide at least 7.5 gigabits per second of regional throughput in Ka-band.
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.
Startups like San Francisco-based Astranis are offering dedicated broadband from small GEO satellites that are a small fraction of the mass of traditional geostationary satellites.
In 2021, Astranis and Andesat had a contract worth more than $90,000,000 over Andesat-1’s eight-year design life in orbit.
Andesat was one of the first customers Astranis announced after the company was founded in 2015.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 is due to launch four Astranis Block 2 satellites in the first quarter of 2024.
Orbits Corp earlier ordered a separate broadband satellite from Astranis that is slated to launch later in 2024 as part of Astranis’ Block 3.
Orbits Corp, part of Philippine internet service provider HTechCorp, claimed a small geostationary spacecraft that Astranis had reserved for Andesat and renamed it Agila.
Astranis designs its satellites to provide more regional coverage with dedicated bandwidth at lower costs.
The Andesat contract included a teleport for Astranis to build in Peru and an option for a second satellite that could launch as early as 2024.
A second Astranis internet satellite for the Philippines is scheduled to launch later in 2024.
Astranis has three of the small-satellite-venture GEO orders announced so far 2023.
Astranis announced contracts in 2023 as part of a new breed of smaller, more regionally focused geostationary spacecraft.
Anomalies experienced by the Astranis-built Arcturus satellite, Inmarsat 6 F2, and Viasat-3 Americas are unprecedented and will impact the insurance market.
Astranis reported on 2023-03-14 that Mexican telco Apco Networks ordered two satellites launching in 2024.
Astranis satellites will enable Apco Networks to provide managed services including WiFi sites, direct-to-enterprise connectivity, and backhaul for rural cell sites.
Astranis is partnering with Apco Networks to launch two satellites dedicated to Mexico in 2024.
Astranis has worked with commercial and government customers to demonstrate the successful operation of the Astranis-designed payload on Arcturus.