Spaceway 3 Satellite to fuel Hughes growth in the competetive Satellite Internet market
Hughes has been handed over the on-orbit operations of the Spaceway 3 satellite on December 18th 2007. This was a historic occasion and CEO Pradman Kaul thanked the Boeing team for successfully placing the satellite in the orbit. With this Hughes will move aggressively to provide broadband communication services to enterprises, consumer, Small and Medium businesses and the Government sector. The satellite was launched in August from the Arianespace launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana. Operating on the globally assigned Ka-band spectrum it will help Hughes offer high speed Satellite Internet services to customers all over North America. There are many benefits that Hughes will derive from the Spaceway 3 satellite. Spaceway 3 is the third in the Spaceway series. The first two satellites offer high definition Television services to DirecTV customers.
The new satellite will help to offer user-to-user communication at broadband speed. The advanced antenna will enable maximum frequency re-use. The 10 Gbps gross capacity will offer 10 times the capacity of conventional Ku-Band...