Viasat secures contract from Northrop Grumman for DEUSCI programme
The company's high-capacity geostationary satellites will support the programme, which is connecting commercial space internet services for military users.
The company's high-capacity geostationary satellites will support the programme, which is connecting commercial space internet services for military users.
It will take close to three weeks for ViaSat-3 Americas to reach its final GEO position at 88.9 degrees West.
The satellite has now progressed to the flight final phase of integration, where it is undergoing the final build-up to its flight configuration.
Virgin will put the equipped jets into service covering intercontinental flights between the Americas and the United Kingdom in the second half of this year.
The current plan is to see the first ViaSat-3 launched for service over the US early in 2021, and a European/MENA craft launching later in the same year.
ViaSat has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) milestones for the ViaSat-3 class spacecraft. The payload CDR was successfully completed last week, and when combined with the successful bus CDR, conducted ...