ViaSat has recently announced that Boeing will build ViaSat-2, which is based on the company’s next generation, Ka-band satellite technology and architecture.
ViaSat-2 is expected to be the world’s highest capacity satellite at the time of launch (scheduled for mid-2016) and will achieve an unparalleled mix of capacity and coverage.
Building on the market success of the ViaSat-1 based Exede Internet service, the satellite is expected to significantly improve the speed and availability of broadband services over a greatly expanded coverage area that includes North America, Central America, the Caribbean, the northern portion of South America as well as the primary aeronautical and maritime routes across the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe.
The announcement marks the first major advancement of satellite broadband technology since the initial development of ViaSat-1, which recently earned a Guinness World Records title as the highest-capacity communications satellite in the world.
ViaSat-2 is anticipated to approximately double the bandwidth economics of ViaSat-1 while simultaneously increasing its coverage footprint by seven-fold.
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