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ViaSat Supplying Korea Aerospace Research Institute with 7.3m Antenna For Remote Sensing and Telemetry

May 08, 2007 06:21 PM Eastern Time

DULUTH, Ga.--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) will provide a 7.3 meter antenna system to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) of Daejeon, South Korea for receiving satellite imagery (remote sensing) and satellite Telemetry, Tracking & Command (TT&C). ViaSat Antenna Systems will install one 7.3 meter antenna system at the KARI headquarters site in Daejeon with a ViaSat dual-band feed for X-band data reception and S-band monitor and control. KARI will use the antenna system to support the on-going development of the KOMPSAT (Korean Multi-purpose Satellite) series of satellites.

KOMPSAT satellites carry electro-optical cameras (EOC), ocean scanning multi-spectral imagers (OSMI) and space physics sensors (SPS). The EOC provides cartography images for creating maps of the Korean territory. OSMI is a worldwide ocean color monitoring program for the study of biological oceanography. And the SPS mission is to characterize the low altitude, high-energy particle environment for studying the effects of environmental radiation on microelectronics.

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About Korea Aerospace Research Institute

Established in 1989, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has been devoted to fulfilling its role as the leading national aerospace R&D institute in Korea. R&D activities at KARI include the development of cutting edge technology aircraft and the development of satellites. KARI also performs quality certification of aircraft and space products for the government.

About ViaSat (www.viasat.com)

ViaSat produces innovative satellite and other communication products that enable fast, secure, and efficient communications to any location. The Company provides networking products and managed network services for enterprise IP applications; is a key supplier of network-centric military communications and encryption technologies to the U.S. government; and is the primary technology partner for gateway and customer-premises equipment for consumer and mobile satellite broadband services. The company’s four wholly owned subsidiaries, US Monolithics, Efficient Channel Coding, Enerdyne Technologies, and Intelligent Compression Technologies, design and produce complementary products such as monolithic microwave integrated circuits, DVB-S2 satellite communication components, video data link systems, and data acceleration and compression products. ViaSat has locations in Carlsbad, CA, and Duluth, GA, along with its Comsat Laboratories division in Germantown, MD. Additional field offices are located in Boston, MA, Baltimore, MD, Washington DC, Australia, China, India, Italy, and Spain.

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