{"id":53523,"date":"2023-05-01T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astranis-and-infinite-orbits-confirm-success-on-viasat-3-launch\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:14:09","slug":"astranis-and-infinite-orbits-confirm-success-on-viasat-3-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astranis-and-infinite-orbits-confirm-success-on-viasat-3-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Astranis and Infinite Orbits Confirm Success on ViaSat-3 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Astranis<\/strong> and <strong>Infinite Orbits<\/strong> \u2014 the two companies with secondary payloads on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy mission that launched ViaSat-3 \u2014&nbsp;confirmed their satellites were successfully deployed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After Sunday night\u2019s launch, Astranis CEO John Gedmark confirmed that the company made contact with the Arcturus satellite. Its solar array and antennas were successfully deployed, and the system was operating nominally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, Arcturus, is the first Astranis MicroGEO satellite to launch. Astranis\u2019s customer is Alaska satellite services provider Pacific Dataport, which will use the capacity to provide broadband in Alaska. Pacific Dataport exec Shawn Williams previously spoke in-depth with <i>Via Satellite<\/i> about the challenges for broadband connectivity in Alaska, and why Pacific Dataport invested in a satellite to bridge the digital divide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most exciting part of the Aurora 4A launch is knowing how many lives this one satellite will change,\u201d Williams said at the time. \u201cWe often work with Alaska\u2019s tribal leaders and talk about how the Alaska Native villages are truly the have-nots in the digital divide. If they do have broadband, it\u2019s slow and expensive. This satellite will start to level the playing field and finally bring some competition to the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>French company Infinite Orbits also confirmed its small GEO satellite, Orbit Guard, was successfully launched. Orbit Guard is a small satellite to prove technology for in-orbit servicing missions. The satellite will perform several demonstration missions in GEO in the upcoming months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA massive thanks to our incredible team at Infinite Orbits, our partners, and supporters who made this possible. We\u2019re excited to demonstrate Orbit Guard 1\u2019s cutting-edge capabilities in the coming months,\u201d the company said post-launch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astranis and Infinite Orbits \u2014 the two companies with secondary payloads on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy mission that launched ViaSat-3 \u2014&nbsp;confirmed their satellites were successfully deployed.&nbsp; After Sunday night\u2019s launch, Astranis CEO John Gedmark confirmed that the company made contact with the Arcturus satellite. Its solar array and antennas were successfully deployed, and the system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53524,"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":[],"class_list":["post-53523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53523"}],"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=53523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}