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ViaSat Says It Has Contract for ViaSat-3

ViaSat has started work on ViaSat-3 as the company has been contracted to build the satellite, it said in an FCC International Bureau filing made Thursday. The Ka-band geostationary satellite "is intended to provide a range of communications services to…

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both businesses and consumers," the company said. No estimated time frame of the launch was included in the application, but the company's ViaSat-2 is expected to launch in 2016.