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ASTRANIS TO BRING SATELLITE INTERNET TO 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE PHILIPPINES NEXT
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A visualization shows an Astranis satellite over the Philippines in orbit.

Astranis

Astranis, a San Francisco-based company with an alternative approach to
providing internet access from satellites, recently signed a deal to provide
dedicated service to the Philippines, a first for the archipelago nation.



“They are going to use this capacity to connect hospitals, schools and other
enterprises, as well as set up community Wi-Fi centers,” Astranis CEO John
Gedmark told CNBC. 



“We estimate that we will get up to 2 million people connected, having access to
this broadband internet that they didn’t have before,” Gedmark added.

The satellite that will provide service to the Philippines is scheduled to
launch in 2024. It represents the latest exercise in Astranis’ campaign to bring
service to underserved communities around the world, with its first small
satellite dedicated to bringing service to “hundreds of thousands of people” in
Alaska, and another upcoming satellite that’s expected to bring service to 3
million people in Peru.

Astranis will own and operate the satellite, with services provider Orbits Corp.
buying capacity through a long-term contract for a local Philippine internet
service provider, HTechCorp. Astranis declined to specify financial details of
the contract, but Gedmark emphasized the service comes at “a very low cost.”

The Philippines has a population of more than 100 million people, spread across
more than 7,000 often-mountainous islands. That makes broadband service “one of
their biggest problems to date,” Gedmark said.

Astranis pointed to a recent third-party study that estimated bringing broadband
access to the Philippines, also known as “closing the digital divide,” would
create economic value in the country of over $100 billion by the end of this
decade.

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Astranis launched its first satellite in May. Its currently preparing to launch
two more batches of satellites – which Astranis calls “Block 2” and “Block 3.”
Block 2 is launching in the fourth quarter and will feature four satellites, one
of of which is for Peru, and Block 3 is launching in mid-2024 and will feature
five satellites, one of which is for the Philippines.

The company is one of a number of next-generation broadband satellite systems in
development, as companies race to meet a growing global demand for data —
including SpaceX’s Starlink, British-owned OneWeb, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, AST
SpaceMobile and others.

But the company’s approach marks a unique way of providing broadband service
from space, Gedmark has previously said. The company’s dishwasher-sized
satellite combines the small form factor of satellites such as Starlink in low
Earth orbit with the distant, geosynchronous orbit of traditional players such
as Viasat.

Geosynchronous orbit, or GEO, is about 22,000 miles away from the planet’s
surface — a position that allows the spacecraft to stay above a fixed location,
matching the Earth’s rotation.

Astranis will be able to “cover the entire Philippines with this one satellite,”
Gedmark noted.



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