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Viasat is introducing Enhanced LAISR (L-band Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) – aimed at governmental organisations – for airborne, maritime and mobile land users worldwide. Using Viasat’s global L-band space and ground network, it’s an on-demand managed L-band service for communications. It aims to meet, in small form factors, government requirements for highly reliable, high-speed beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) connectivity. The ...

Space Norway and Viasat are advancing a mission to supply broadband connectivity to the Arctic from polar orbits. The Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) – which is led by the Space Norway subsidiary Heosat – has successfully launched from Vandenburg Space Force Base. It will see two satellites deployed in a highly elliptical orbit (HEO). As such, it will be ...

Viasat is introducing its Secure Wireless Hub (SWH), described as a wearable tactical gateway solution. The SWH system is being developed as part of a multi-phase effort with the U.S. Army, specifically the Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). This is to meet requirements for tactical edge computing and networking, in a small form factor, for dismounted users. Tactical “Tactical edge operators ...

The first "Viasat Beyond: Space", a STEM competition, was recently held at the space company's International Business headquarters in London.

Viasat has demonstrated a UK satellite-based augmentation system (UK SBAS) for the first time, to deliver more precise, reliable navigation data from current GPS offerings. A test flight, flown from Cranfield Airport using the National Flying Laboratory Centre’s Saab 340B aircraft, demonstrated the system in an aviation context. Following Brexit, the UK is no longer part of the EU’s similar ...

The race for comms from space is heating up. Viasat, the satellite communications company, and Skylo Technologies, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) service provider, have announced the launch of a global direct-to-device (D2D) network. Their infrastructure agreement will, they say, allow Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), device makers and chipset manufacturers to take 3GPP Release 17 compliant products to market using Viasat’s ...

Following its acquisition of Inmarsat, Viasat has announced it is making approximately 800 people from its workforce redundant, representing about 10%, spread across the business in terms of geographies and divisions. The company says it has completed “a rationalization of roles in its global business”, to achieve both operational and cost efficiencies. It also expects to achieve $100 million in ...

Viasat has launched its student-focused ‘Viasat Beyond: Space’ competition, to “support the next generation of UK engineers, artists, space lovers, and scientists”. The STEM challenge is to submit ideas and suggestions for a safe and sustainable UK space sector, with students in years 12 and 13 from schools around the UK (and their equivalents in Scotland) working individually or in ...

Durham University is working with Viasat to better understand atmospheric turbulence in free-space optical (FSO) communications. The resulting forecasting tool will be used, the organisations say, to optimise Viasat’s ground station design and support operational decision-making such as network switching between ground stations based on atmospheric conditions. Specifically – for the first phases of the project, using a £200k investment ...