{"id":8635,"date":"2026-09-01T23:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/8635\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:18:16","slug":"viasat-3-f3-satellite-enters-service-across-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/8635\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat-3 F3 satellite enters service across Asia-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/LFReg-APDR)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-59049 size-large\" title=\"Land Forces 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Wings-Magazine-728x90px-260518-3-1024x127.png\" alt=\"Land Forces 2026\" width=\"696\" height=\"86\"  \/><\/a>Viasat announced that its ViaSat-3 F3 satellite has entered service with capacity now available for customers operating across fast-growing markets in the Asia-Pacific region. The milestone marks the beginning of revenue-generating operations for one of the most advanced high throughput communications satellites ever deployed. ViaSat-3 F3 is expected to deliver greater flexibility, coverage, and capacity with competitive bandwidth economics driving new growth opportunities across Viasat\u2019s markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cViasat-3 F3\u2019s advanced technology, including its ability to maximize regional capacity density on demand within premium mobility markets, will drive growth and improved blended average yield and incremental cash economics across our portfolio,\u201d said Mark Dankberg, Chairman and CEO of Viasat. \u201cAsia-Pacific presents a unique challenge for satellite connectivity, with demand concentrated in specific corridors and markets across a vast geography. ViaSat-3 F3 gives us the flexibility to direct high operating leverage capacity where demand and opportunity are greatest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ViaSat-3 F3 is designed to deliver more than one terabit per second of throughput capacity and is the second of three satellites in Viasat\u2019s next-generation Ka-band constellation. This enhanced capacity will allow the company to pursue growth opportunities in under-penetrated attractive markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With ViaSat-3 F1 in service since 2024, ViaSat-3 F3\u2019s service entry brings the company\u2019s next-generation ViaSat-3 fleet to two high throughput satellites. ViaSat-3 F2, which will serve the Americas, is in the final stages of in-orbit testing and expected to enter service soon, at which point the company\u2019s next-generation constellation will be complete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificdefencereporter.com\/#News_Bulletin_Form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22782 size-full\" title=\"APDR_Bulletin_728X90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/APDR_Bulletin_728X90.gif\" alt=\"APDR_Bulletin_728X90\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Editorial Inquiries Contact:<br \/>Editor Kym Bergmann at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/asiapacificdefencereporter.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#d9b2a0b4f7bbbcabbeb4b8b7b799afbcb7adacabb8b4bcbdb0b8f7b7bcad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><br \/>For Advertising Inquiries Contact:<br \/>Group Sales Director Simon Hadfield at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/asiapacificdefencereporter.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#e192888c8e8fcf8980858788848d85a197848f959493808c84858880cf8f8495\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificdefencereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Web-RatesSpecs-AUD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/APDR_728x90_leaderboard.gif\" alt=\"leaderboard\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viasat announced that its ViaSat-3 F3 satellite has entered service with capacity now available for customers operating across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,977],"class_list":["post-8635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-defence-industry","tag-viasat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}