Artist rendition of JCSAT-18. Photo: Boeing.

SKY Perfect JSAT has announced the procurement of JCSAT-18, a High Throughput Satellite (HTS), to meet increasing demands in the mobility and broadband market.

Built by Boeing, JCSAT-18 will carry a Ku- and Ka-band HTS mission over Asia Pacific including Far East Russia as well as a traditional wide-beam mission over East Asia, in response to not only mobility and broadband demands but also government and cellular backhaul demands.

The satellite is a condominium satellite shared with Kacific Broadband Satellites, a Singapore-based satellite operator, which will operate Ka-band HTS satellite broadband services under the satellite name Kacific-1 to serve more than 20 countries in South East Asia and the Pacific.

JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 is scheduled to launch in 2019.