# Viasat: space company profile

> Viasat: Viasat, trading as VSAT, provides satellite broadband, in-flight Wi-Fi, and defense communications, having acquired Inmarsat in 2023 for $7.3 billion.

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- Data as of: profile last verified 2026-10-13; quote fetched 2026-10-14 06:22 UTC
- How the numbers are made: https://spacenexus.us/methodology#space-score

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## Profile facts

- Name: Viasat (legal name VIASAT INC)
- What it does: Viasat, trading as VSAT, provides satellite broadband, in-flight Wi-Fi, and defense communications, having acquired Inmarsat in 2023 for $7.3 billion. (SpaceNexus analyst note)
- Sector: satellite
- Headquarters: Carlsbad, California, US
- Founded: 1986
- Employees: 5001-10000
- Chief executive: Mark Dankberg
- Status: active
- Ownership: public
- Publicly traded: yes, VSAT on Nasdaq
- Website: [https://www.viasat.com](https://www.viasat.com) (SpaceNexus profile)
- Profile claimed by the company: no
- Profile last verified: 2026-10-13

## Market data

- Share price: $66.90 (-1.12% over 24 hours)
- Market capitalisation: $9.22B
- Quote: Yahoo Finance, fetched 2026-10-14 06:22 UTC
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## Funding

- Raised privately before listing: No private round on record (No private round on record before Dec 1996. IPO, offerings, debt and unconverted notes are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.)

| Date | Round | Amount (USD) | Lead investor | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2020-07-23 | equity | $175.0M | - | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000156761920013997/0001567619-20-013997-index.htm) |
| 2010-07-08 | equity | $4.8M | - | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000079772110000002/0000797721-10-000002-index.htm) |
| 2009-12-15 | equity | $133.0M | - | [SEC EDGAR Form D](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/797721/000079772109000002/0000797721-09-000002-index.htm) |

- Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security.

## Space Score

- Score 777 of 1000, tier Leader.
- Rank =7 of 93 ranked companies (shared with 1 other company on the same total).
- 6 of 7 inputs measured, high confidence, 100% of applicable pillar weight backed by data; measured 2026-10-14 02:10 UTC.
- Scale (46% of this total): 71 of 100
- Government space demand (31% of this total): 83 of 100
- Capital access (15% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Momentum (23% of this total): 84 of 100; not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
- Flight record (20% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Every input, value and percentile: [breakdown](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology?company=viasat#breakdown)
- The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
- The Space Score ranks companies relative to each other on public data we hold. It describes; it does not rate, forecast or recommend. It is not a credit rating and not investment advice.

## Government contracts (latest)

| Award date | Agency | Title | Value (USD) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-05-22 | DoD | PTS-G SWARM 1 DESIGN, DEVELOP, TEST, AND PRODUCE GLOBAL VARIANTS OF THE PROTECTED TACTICAL SATCOM SPACE VEHICLES, ASSOCIATED GROUND SYSTEMS AND ANCHOR STATIONS, AND OPERATIONS AND SUSTAINMENT. | $75.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA880726FB004_9700_FA880725DB002_9700) |
| 2026-03-10 | DoD | NAVAL SENIOR LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATIONS - AIRCRAFT (NSLC-A) SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE | $6.9M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA254126CB012_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2026-03-04 | NASA | PROVIDE ADVANCED INDUSTRY ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS THAT ESTABLISH HIGH-BANDWIDTH, HIGH-AVAILABILITY CRITICAL COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE BETWEEN CISLUNAR REGION AND EARTH TO ENABLE SCIENCE, EXPLORATION… | $346K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC26C0005_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2026-01-12 | DoD | TRAINING | $26K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_N3596A26F0001_9700_GS35F218AA_4732) |
| 2025-09-25 | DoD | THE INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER (ISP) SHALL PROVIDE ALL MANAGEMENT, TOOLS, SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT AND LABOR NECESSARY TO ENSURE THAT INTERNET SERVICES ARE INSTALLED AND PROVIDED TO THE 11 LRS VEHICLE MAIN… | $40K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA706025F0142_9700_GS35F218AA_4732) |
| 2025-07-28 | DoD | PTS-G DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATIONS THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE REQUIREMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLIN 0100 PTS-G DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATIONS AND AS OUTLINED IN IDIQ SOW (SECTION J, ATTACHMENT 1). | $7.5M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA880725FB017_9700_FA880725DB002_9700) |
| 2025-01-29 | NASA | NEAR SPACE NETWORK (NSN) SERVICES (SUBCATEGORY 1.1 (EARTH PROXIMITY DIRECT TO EARTH (DTE)) | $250K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC25CA030_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-08-29 | DoD | THE U.S. ARMY ROTARY WING CONTINGENCY COMMUNICATIONS (RWCC) REQUIREMENT IS FOR AIRBORNE SUBSCRIPTION SATCOM SERVICES SOLD AS SIMULTANEOUS OPERATIONS (SIMOPS). THESE SIMOPS WILL PROVIDE HELICOPTER PAS… | $2.9M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA254124CB047_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-07-10 | DoD | PROCUREMENT VIASAT LINKWAY SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND REMOTE LINKWAY TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR ONE BASE YEAR AND THREE OPTION YEARS. | $12.1M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W58P0524C0002_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-03-01 | DoD | INTERNET SERVICE 300M | $56K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W91WRZ24P0008_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2023-08-29 | DoD | IW & W10 FIELD REFURB FOR TS-4528A/U | $284K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_W9124923P0052_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2023-07-13 | DHS | PURCHASE OF SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES TO PROVIDE THE LONG RANGE COMMAND AND CONTROL AIRCRAFT WITH GLOBAL NETWORK SERVICE | $11.2M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70Z03823FH0000012_7008_GS35F218AA_4732) |
| 2023-06-21 | DoD | BFT2 GROUND VEHICULAR TRANSCEIVERS | $22.8M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC102823F0608_9700_GS35F218AA_4732) |
| 2022-09-28 | DoD | VGNET KU PLUS-8 SIMOPS | $37.2M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101322C0005_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2022-09-21 | DoD | P/N: VA-017000-0024 | $213K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_N0042122P0552_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |

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## Sources

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- Each funding round's cited source: SEC filings, company announcements and press reports, linked per round
- Yahoo Finance: share price and market capitalisation
- Federal award records: contract awards

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