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GROUND SEGMENT · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-06-11

Viasat Real-Time Earth

Active VSAT Ground Segment Subsidiary HQ: Carlsbad, California Founded 2019

Viasat's commercial ground-segment-as-a-service division. Real-Time Earth operates ~15 antennas worldwide for LEO Earth-observation downlink. Distinct from Viasat satcom; tracked separately because the GCAT operator field uses 'viasat-rte' for the ground-segment subsidiary.

74.7
ARI Composite
Very Low Risk
#1 of 66
Peer Rank
Manufacturing cohort
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Total Launches
No flights tracked
VSAT
Market cap
NASDAQ

FINANCIAL HEALTH

74.7
ARI composite · Very Low Risk
Peer rank#1 of 66
Peer groupManufacturing
Data coverage82%
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SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorGround Segment
Rank within sector#1 of 66
Tracked peers66

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameViasat Inc. (Real-Time Earth division)
Ticker / ExchangeVSAT (NASDAQ)
OwnershipSubsidiary
HeadquartersCarlsbad, California
CountryUS
Founded2019
ParentViasat Inc.
AliasesViasat RTE, viasat-rte, viasat_rte, Viasat Real-Time Earth, Real-Time Earth, RTE
Key programsRTE global ground network (~15 sites), Inmarsat (acquired 2023) ground segment integration
Gov customersNOAA, ESA
IPO statusParent (Viasat) listed on NASDAQ

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Official Viasat Real-Time Earth product page — confirms ground network roster and GSaaS positioning.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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