High Throughput Satellites (HTS) are Pushing Open the Satellite Market Door

by NSR

Anyone in the satellite industry more than six months has probably heard of Ka-band satellites. Anyone (like most of us) who has been in the industry a bit longer knows that the benefits and advantages of Ka-band spotbeam satellites have been endlessly discussed in conferences, meetings, and an uncountable number of other industry events for well over a decade. Most often cited, to the point that it has essentially become an industry mantra, is that Ka-band satellites can dramatically lower the cost per bit of delivering a satellite service. This has developed along the lines of other mantras in our industry like "satellites can deliver services anywhere" and "satellites are the single best technology for point-to-multipoint content delivery."