SpaceX to Launch ViaSat-2 Satellite
ViaSat picked SpaceX to launch its ViaSat-2 high-capacity broadband satellite aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket, it said in a news release Monday. The launch is scheduled for late summer 2016 at the Kennedy Space Center. ViaSat said it expects ViaSat-2…
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to "cover seven times the geographic area and offer twice the bandwidth economics advantage" of its previous satellite. Coverage areas will include North and Central America and the Caribbean basin. This new satellite enables ViaSat to offer additional data for its wireless plans, it said. ViaSat-2 will also connect North America with U.K. and European coverage for "high-speed in-flight internet and other mobile services” through ViaSat’s partner Eutelsat and its KA-Sat satellite, a ViaSat spokeswoman emailed us.