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Viasat Closer to Realizing Broadband Arctic Extension

Key Tests Completed on Spacecraft to be Launched in 2024

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Tom Patton
Nov 27, 2023
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The second satellite in the upcoming Viasat Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission has completed thermal vacuum testing at Northrop Grumman's Dulles, VA, site: a significant milestone as the project looks to connect the Arctic region with high speed broadband in the second half of 2024.

"With both satellites through the thermal vacuum test we are really clos…

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