The coast news, january 13, 2017

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Council selects Joe Mosca for vacancy . SAN MARCOS -NEWS

By Aaron Burgin

Carlsbad-based ViaSat is scheduled to launch its ViaSat-2 satellite in late March or early April. They partnered with Boeing to construct and test the satellite, which will increase ViaSat’s broadband internet performance. The photo is of two Boeing 702 satellites in its thermal vacuum.

ENCINITAS — The Encinitas City Council has found its man to fill the vacant seat on the council: Joseph Mosca. The council voted 3-1 to appoint Mosca, a parks and recreation commissioner and a former councilman in Sierra Madre, to the final two years of Catherine Blakespear’s term that she vacated when she was elected mayor. Mosca, who was appointed to the parks post in 2015, was selected from a pool of 16 applicants that included former planning commissioners, attorneys, business owners and several longtime community fixtures. “I am just very excited

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and honored to be appointed to the City Council,” Mosca said. “There were so many qualified candidates who came THE ... just to be in that group of 16 peoVISTA ple and then to be appointed I am just NEWS humbled and excited and really looking forward to getting to work and working hard.” After hearing from 12 of the applicants — three withdrew their names from consideration and a fourth was unable to attend the meeting — and several supporters of various candidates, the council RANCHO briefly thanked the candidates SFNEWS and complimented them for their interest in the position and their vast

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ViaSat’s newest satellite to increase internet speeds By Steve Puterski

EL SEGUNDO — At a low-key press event, ViaSat revealed its latest and most advanced satellite, which will put the company on a path to be more competitive in the internet market. At Boeing’s satellite facility on Tuesday, ViaSat and Boeing executives engaged in an hour-long presentation about ViaSat-2’s capabilities, their business partnership, plus a tour of the facility highlighted by revealing the $350 million state-of-the-art satellite. The total project cost, meanwhile, is about $600 million and took three years to construct. However, no photos were allowed to preserve company and technological strategies. Nevertheless, ViaSat’s crown jewel stands 25-feet high, about 10 feet wide and, once its solar panels deploy in space, it will have a wingspan of 150 feet. Arianespace, a French company,

will deliver the satellite on its Ariane 5 rocket. “We’re really evolving toward, what we believe, is the first global internet service provider,” said Dave Abrahamian, ViaSat’s director of space systems. “Our whole mantra for the past 10 years … is to reduce the cost per bit, increase capacity substantially so that satellite-base broadband is no longer the choice of last resort. We’ll move that ball significantly forward when we launch ViaSat-2.” ViaSat-2, meanwhile, will have two times more the capacity than ViaSat-1, which was the highest capacity ever launched in 2011, and increase speeds up to 300 gigabits per second (Gbps), seven times more coverage and customer download speeds up to 25 to 50Mbps. More capacity in the satellite increases the bandwidth, which enables faster internets speeds to consumers.

With a successful launch, which is scheduled for March or April in French Guiana in South America, ViaSat-2 will expand the Carlsbad-based company’s reach across the Atlantic Ocean to the Middle East and the northern tip of South America. Alaska will be the only state not to receive coverage from ViaSat-2 due to the angle of Earth. “We don’t have to sacrifice capacity for coverage area,” Abrahamian explained. “We can also move capacity around. ViaSat-2 solves that problem.” In addition, the increase in ViaSat’s customer base is estimated to increase about two to threefold, said Keven Lippert, executive vice president of Satellite Systems and Corporate Development at ViaSat. Currently, the company has about 700,000 residential and commercial users on its ViaSat-1

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