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VIASAT-1

High-Throughput Broadband · ViaSat (now Viasat)

The satellite that proved high-throughput GEO broadband could compete with fiber. When ViaSat-1 launched in 2011, its 140 Gbps Ka-band capacity exceeded the combined capacity of all commercial communications satellites serving North America at that time — a 10-fold increase in a single spacecraft. The resulting Exede internet service brought affordable broadband to millions of rural Americans who had no other option. ViaSat-1 made it economically possible for rural families to access streaming video — a social equalizer that changed the meaning of rural life in America.