Faultline recently reported on a Northern Sky Research (NSR) study that supported our view that it’s tough to plan for the satellite industry, now there has been talk of pricing coming down by 75% or more upon the launch of so called “Ultra-High Throughput Satellites” (UTS) – which would have a huge financial impact on the satellite industry. Three industry players have recently outlined the ways in which they intend to alter the industry by expanding the payloads of HTS (High Throughput Satellites). Firstly, US satellite broadband hardware and service provider ViaSat has announced it is intending to launch three ViaSat-3 Ka-band broadband satellites with a global reach – each with a throughput capacity of 1 terabit per second. This…