High-Throughput Satellite (HTS)
Spot beams and frequency reuse turned geostationary satellites from one-way TV broadcasters into terabit-per-second pipes - and made consumer satellite broadband actually work.
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Falcon Heavy Returns | A Six-Ton Bet on Geostationary Broadband
Falcon Heavy flew for the first time in eighteen months on April 29, 2026, expending its center core to push Viasat's final ViaSat-3 satellite toward geostationary orbit. The mission is a flagship rocket doing what only it can still do, for an operator betting six tons of high-throughput hardware on a market Starlink is rapidly redefining.