With a launch planned less than 10 months away in the first half of 2012, engineering and development activity on JUPITER is progressing at full speed and remains on track.
Employing a multi-spot beam, bent-pipe architecture, this next-generation, Ka-band, high-throughput satellite will provide significant additional capacity—over 100 Gbps—to further fuel the rapidly growing HughesNet service business in North America. It will build on the success of the award-winning SPACEWAY 3 satellite system, which in less than three years already serves over 60 percent of the 558,000 HughesNet subscribers in North America, enabling the highest-speed satellite Internet offerings in the market, from 1 to 5 Mbps downloads.
The new Hughes satellite will employ an enhanced version of the IPoS/DVB-S2 standard, the world’s leading broadband satellite standard approved by ETSI, TIA, and ITU. Space Systems/Loral has been selected to manufacture the new Hughes satellite based on its SSL 1300 platform, which has the proven flexibility for a broad range of applications and is expected to provide service for 15 years or more.
The unique mix of the world’s first switch-in-the-sky, SPACEWAY 3, which enables single-hop, site-to-site connectivity, and JUPITER’s enormous capacity—100 times that of conventional Ku-band satellites—will ensure continued leadership by Hughes as the world’s #1 provider of satellite broadband services and solutions. |
