DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — ViaSat Inc.’s ViaSat-1 Ka-band satellite, which with 140 gigabits per second of throughput dwarves other communications spacecraft in orbit, may soon look small as the industry moves to 200-gigabit satellites within the next year or two and then on to 400-gigabit models, Space Systems/Loral President John Celli said.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.