Avanti Communications CEO Kyle Whitehill (left) with Eiichi Yonekura, CEO of Sky Perfect JSAT. Credit: Avanti Communications
TAMPA, Fla. — Avanti Communications is moving to close a chapter on the debt-fueled geostationary expansion that once defined the British satellite operator, with plans to sell the youngest payload in its aging broadband fleet.
The company announced an agreement June 10 to sell its Hylas-3 Ka-band hosted payload to Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT, which is in expansion mode and has three new satellites on order for geostationary orbit (GEO).
Financial details were not disclosed.
Launched in 2019 and operating at 31 degrees East over Europe, the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia, Hylas-3 is on a spacecraft that also carries the EDRS-C payload for the European Data Relay System (EDRS).
