{"id":4813,"date":"2025-08-25T09:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/australia-and-new-zealand-award-viasat-252-million-to-expand-southpan-satellite-services\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:40:04","slug":"australia-and-new-zealand-award-viasat-252-million-to-expand-southpan-satellite-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/australia-and-new-zealand-award-viasat-252-million-to-expand-southpan-satellite-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia and New Zealand Award Viasat $252 Million to Expand SouthPAN Satellite Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Australia<\/p>\n

Viasat<\/strong> announced a $252 million AUD award from Geoscience Australia (GA) and Toitu Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) to deliver additional satellite services for the region\u2019s world-class Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN). This expands on a previous SouthPAN award for the company, and the estimated net incremental value for Viasat from this agreement is $214M AUD. SouthPAN is a collaborative satellite-based augmentation system developed jointly by Australia and New Zealand. It provides precise positioning and navigation services to support a number of sectors, including aviation, maritime, agriculture, surveying, and emergency response.<\/p>\n

SouthPAN serves growing end market use cases, including in agriculture to increase productivity through applications like precision spraying, yield mapping, controlled traffic farming, inter-row seeding and livestock management. It is also capable of improving personnel safety on mine and construction sites through smart geo-fencing technologies to accurately identify the location of workers operating vehicles and heavy machinery.<\/p>\n

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This marks the second such award for the company, after Inmarsat, which has since combined with Viasat, was awarded a contract in May 2023 to deliver a satellite payload for SouthPAN. The new agreement, which amends the previous award and comes under Viasat\u2019s Communication Services segment, covers the continuation of services from Viasat\u2019s existing in-orbit satellites as well as a new payload, marking a significant extension of Viasat\u2019s partnership with both Governments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis agreement secures a reliable satellite service and ground infrastructure, delivering precise positioning across Australia and its maritime zones \u2013 enabling industries to innovate where accuracy is critical,\u201d said Geoscience Australia\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, <\/strong>Melissa Harris<\/strong>. \u201cFrom farms to freight, users will be able to access free services that are accurate and timely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Todd McDonell<\/strong>, President, Viasat International Government<\/strong>, said: \u201cViasat is thrilled to expand its support for SouthPAN and enable improved positioning and navigation services across Australia and New Zealand. SouthPAN represents extraordinary potential for the region: It can save lives by enabling precision safety tracking, help farmers improve productivity through automated device tracking, and even support transport management systems of the future. \u201cWe have a long history providing advanced PNT and safety services across the world, so we are, of course, excited to be expanding this work and collaboration with GA and LINZ.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Viasat announced a $252 million AUD award from Geoscience Australia (GA) and Toitu Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) to deliver additional satellite services for the region\u2019s world-class Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN). This expands on a previous SouthPAN award for the company, and the estimated net incremental value for Viasat from this agreement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,32,20],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-satcom-antennas","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}