CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 5, 2024 -- Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global leader in satellite communications, today announced the introduction of Viasat’s newly developed Multi-Mission Orchestrator (MMO) solution, an automated constellation management and planning capability designed to optimize and coordinate space vehicle scheduling and secure data transport across constellation networks. This new mission planning solution is designed to support increasingly complex, proliferated low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations, which require advanced operational capabilities to effectively support vehicle orchestration, planning, and mission execution.
By generating an operational schedule for every satellite within a constellation, Viasat’s MMO software service evaluates mission performance from a global perspective, while adhering to the specific constraints and capabilities of each satellite within the constellation. This advanced system enables a simultaneous search for each satellite’s schedule through the fulfillment of operational tasks, ensuring coordination between cooperative systems and setting an operationally feasible and secure constellation schedule. This approach is designed to enable autonomous, responsive, and cooperative operations, significantly reducing the demand on ground operators and facilitating direct command specifications to every vehicle involved.
MMO will support fully autonomous mission planning and execution, significantly reducing the need for ground-based control and enabling satellites to operate independently in complex environments. This capability is supported by Viasat’s robust communication infrastructure, ensuring effective data routing and operational coordination. MMO’s advanced planning algorithms and infrastructure integration position it as a leading solution for agencies and companies targeting resilient satellite operations. MMO algorithms can be ground-based or hosted onboard the space vehicles, allowing them to cooperate and coordinate operations across the fleet and domain space.
“With the creation and availability of new communication routes and services, there is a growing need for more efficient decision making to optimize these resources in a sustainable and effective manner. Viasat’s MMO solution provides a new, flexible framework to address growing complexity introduced by disparate systems,” Michael Maughan, Vice President of Space and Mission Systems, Viasat Government. “Automated orchestration helps removes much of the manual planning process for operations teams and provides greater autonomy while improving mission operations performance.”
Whether it’s data collection planning or coordinating satellite maneuvers, the Viasat MMO solution is designed to support a wide range of space mission needs. A future on-orbit demonstration of the MMO solution is planned in 2026.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbors created under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include, among others, statements about the capabilities, features and benefits of the Multi-Mission Orchestrator solution to be offered by Viasat. Readers are cautioned that actual results could differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include: new and increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks; product or software defects; risks associated with the construction, launch and operation of satellites, including the effect of any anomaly, launch, operational or deployment failure or degradation in satellite performance; contractual problems; regulatory issues; technologies that do not perform according to expectations; and other factors affecting the government and defense sectors generally. In addition, please refer to the risk factors contained in Viasat’s SEC filings available at www.sec.gov, including Viasat’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. Viasat undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason.