had pushed the broadband network’s service debut from the second to the third quarter of 2023. Maxar Technologies said that same day that plans to launch the first two imaging satellites for its delayed WorldView Legion constellation have slipped out of 2022 into January 2023. Each Viasat-3 aims to provide more than one terabit a second of broadband capacity from geostationary orbit (GEO) — three times faster than the operator’s ViaSat-2 satellite that launched in 2017. The first ViaSat-3 will focus on covering the Americas. The second, targeting Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, remains on schedule for a launch in the summer of 2023. The company plans to deploy the third ViaSat-3 covering the Asia Pacific region six months later. Dankberg said during its Nov. 8 financial results call that initial work has started on developing ViaSat-4, which aims to bring another seven terabits per second of broadband capacity to the Americas. The company declined to disclose a timeframe for launching ViaSat-4. ViaSat-3 transformation Viasat said it needs ViaSat-3 to relieve broadband capacity constraints that are holding back the operator’s growth. A decline in U.S. fixed broadband revenue largely offset significant year-on-year growth in the company’s commercial inflight connectivity (IFC) business for the three months to the end of September. The operator expects continued challenges to grow its U.S. fixed broadband services until its Americas-focused ViaSat-3 enters service, although customers reining in spending amid soaring inflation and competition from SpaceX’s Starlink broadband constellation also weighed on subscriber numbers. To boost revenues in the run-up to ViaSat-3, Dankberg said Viasat is planning to work with a partner to provide service plans offering “a lot more bandwidth” for specific streaming services. Overall revenue for the three months to the end of September increased 6% year-over-year to $745 million. Adjusted EBITDA, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, jumped 21% to $188 million. Viasat attributed the growth to its strong IFC performance during the quarter, and damages received from litigation against optical networking solutions provider Acacia Communications, which had failed to pay royalties