ViaSat-3 satellites will have a bandwidth of 1 Tbps

Now there are about 400 commercial communications satellites in Earth orbit. It would seem a lot. But their bandwidth is limited, it is sorely lacking at all. The American company ViaSat believes that it can change the situation. On February 9, she announced a joint project with the aerospace giant Boeing to launch three new-generation satellites, each of which is capable of servicing a communication channel with a capacity of more than 1 Tbit / s. That is, each of the three satellites has a capacity equal to all existing 400 communication satellites combined!

ViaSat will design and manufacture the payload, and Boeing must develop the appropriate satellite platforms, which include all service systems (service systems module), as well as the design of the payload module.

Companies have already begun to develop two of the three satellites. The launch is scheduled for the end of 2019. They will cover North and South America, as well as the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Later, the third satellite for the Asian region will be launched.
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The ViaSat-3 satellite constellation will provide Internet access at a speed of 100 Mbit / s for individuals with and 1 Gbit / s for legal entities. Most importantly, such speeds will appear in the most remote corners of the world, for example, in the middle of the ocean, in airplanes at high altitude, etc. Even in Russia, whose segment of the Internet may by this time be isolated from the outside world (at least in the European part of Russia).

The current grouping of ViaSat-1 satellites serves 687,000 customers in the United States, with a total bandwidth of 140 Gbps. In a few months, a second-generation satellite, ViaSat-2, will be launched on the SpaceX launch vehicle.