ViaSat-1
Sign in to saveViaSat-1 is a high throughput communications satellite owned by Viasat Inc. and Telesat Canada. Launched October 19, 2011 aboard a Proton rocket, it held the Guinness record for the world's highest capacity communications satellite with a total capacity in excess of 140 Gbit/s, more than all the satellites covering North America combined, at the time of its launch.
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- Instance of
- artificial satellite of the Earth
- Operator
- Viasat
- Manufacturer
- Lanteris Space Systems
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- space launch vehicle
- Proton-M
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2011-10-19
- space tug
- Briz-M
- start point
- Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 200
- type of orbit
- geostationary orbit
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ViaSat-1 is a high throughput communications satellite owned by Viasat Inc. and Telesat Canada. Launched October 19, 2011 aboard a Proton rocket, it held the Guinness record for the world's highest capacity communications satellite with a total capacity in excess of 140 Gbit/s, more than all the satellites covering North America combined, at the time of its launch.
ViaSat-1 is capable of two-way communications with small dish antennas at higher speeds and a lower cost-per-bit than any satellite before.
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