The FCC denied a petition from SpaceX to block the deal.
ViaSat
It will take close to three weeks for ViaSat-3 Americas to reach its final GEO position at 88.9 degrees West.
This is an expansion of the deal that Viasat and Delta reached in January 2021 for Viasat IFC service on 300 of Delta’s narrowbody aircraft.
Atlas is gaining new antenna sites in Africa, Argentina, Dubai, Hawaii, New Mexico, Rwanda and South Africa.
Viasat still needs regulatory approval in the United States to complete the deal.
The contract, which follows a pilot programme, is to deliver satellite communications as a service (SaaMS) to the Marines.
The current IDIQ is an extension of a $350m contract awarded to Viasat in 2017.
L3Harris plans to modernise the technology, adding advanced tactical data links to the existing Link 16 network.
Viasat is collaborating with Microsoft to help enable telehealth, distance learning and education, precision agriculture, clean power, and other services...
The satellite has now progressed to the flight final phase of integration, where it is undergoing the final build-up to its flight configuration.
