Last week SpaceX's his Starship lifted off from Texas and flew for almost four minutes

before exploding mid-flight.

The most powerful rocket ever built didn't reach space,

but it did mark a milestone.

As SpaceX rebuilds the pad and assesses the data,

the company's launch cadence continues.

Up next, the Viasat 3 America's mission, set to lift off as soon as Thursday from Kennedy

Space Center, using an expendable Falcon Heavy rocket to carry the first of three new satellites for broadband services provider via SAC.

They'll give us a lot more bandwidth.

This one satellite will increase the amount of bandwidth we have available in the Americas by about a factor of three or four.

On this episode, Viasat Chairman and co-founder Mark Dankberg rejoins me to discuss the latest launch,

the burgeoning business of conductivity, and the pending merger within Marsat.

I'm Morgan Brennan and this is manifest space. Well, the Vyset three satellites, there will be three of them altogether.

This is the first of them.

And they're really important to us and to our customers because... altogether this one satellite will increase the amount of bandwidth we have

available in in the Americas by about a factor of three or four

altogether at least and then it also gives us a lot more coverage which is really

valuable to our infyflight connectivity customers, maritime,

government customers. So that's those are the two things that it really will bring to us.

Okay and so you said this is the first of three. What is the

timeline for the next two? They're roughly on about six months centers, you know,

as much as you can predict given my schedules. As we can see, but it should be about six months

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