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High Throughput Satellite (HTS) technology is a game-changing innovation from the space segment
industry that, unlike any technology weve seen to date, will vault satellite communications into the
mainstream. HTS can significant improve capacity economics. And this means greater opportunity for the
satellite industry.
Along with opportunity, however, HTS brings new technical complexity. Most significantly, the industry
must adapt to new satellite architectures. HTS satellites encompass a wide range of different bands, beam
sizes and earth orbits each with its distinct strengths and unique physics.
One example is Ka-band spot beams satellite. To gain throughput improvements, these spot beams
continuously re-cycle frequency on the remote side, while connecting through a feeder link to a hub
infrastructure. Other architectures have emerged that combine spot/wide beam Ku-band satellite and
operate over MEO fleets.