Chris Quilty: And how much capacity would those have because those are small GEOs?
Mark Dankberg: We’re having good reporting the capacity on the L-band satellites. But the thing that we are focused on is, when we talk about next generation L-band, the big thing is increasing the capacity of those satellites dramatically. The I8s were really aimed at extending the existing safety, basically, the safety and emergency services. And so that’s good, I think, in terms of, shoring up the existing fleet. But part of our CapEx budget on a go forward basis and part of what we’re talking about in ecosystem building is to really modernize that whole fleet. And we’ll talk about that separately when we’re ready.
Chris Quilty: And final question, I mean, as you’re moving away from the I4 and — sorry ViaSat-4 and the sort of massive capacity toward satellites that are more agile mobility capable. Does that mean it’s more likely that you’ll buy something off-the-shelf from Thales Alenia Space or Airbus that have Software defined satellites that they’ve already fielded or is it something that you’re likely to do internally because of some design capability that you have internally?
Mark Dankberg: At the time that we do it, we will definitely look at what’s available off-the-shelf for sure. But we haven’t seen so far or we haven’t been seeing things off-the-shelf that have the capability of the technology that we’re doing on ViaSat-3 or we’re doing on 4. So we’re going to do a comparison. One of the things we also will be able to do by holding off a few years is we do we will be able to do some risk reduction. But when I say risk reduction, schedule risk as well as budget risk, reduction. So we intended to go a lot better in terms of scheduling budget, on the following ones. And then also, there’s some really interesting technologies that we can test, that that can also reduce cost and improve productivity.
So those are the things that we’re looking at, but there’s some — so far, on ViaSat-3 absent that anomaly, everything’s worked well. And four was just an enhance the app, so that technology, that’s something that we can draw on, if things play out the way we expect.
Chris Quilty: Currently, did you say whether the EMEA satellite was going to Americas and the Pacific Bird to EMEA, or have you decided that yet?
Mark Dankberg: Yes. We have options on both, and, yes, we’re really focused on meeting the needs of our mobility customers, and that’s how we’re going to prioritize them.
Operator: Edison Yu from Deutsche Bank has the next question.
Edison Yu: First, as you kind of peel away at Inmarsat, do you have any updated thoughts maybe on the various pieces that may not be strategically important, especially on the l band side, now just curious, any thoughts there?
Mark Dankberg: No. I mean, we are really we are very interested in the L-band. I think that Inmarsat has applied L-band into some variety of very different market, so there’s U.S. defense, there’s international government applications, there’s really interesting voice and data applications, and there’ll be safety ones. What we see is, if our long-term objective really is to grow with the direct to device market and the IoT market. And when I say IoT, it’s really going to be the shared terrestrial and mobile, these devices that can operate off both terrestrial and mobile. We’re aiming to, to be able to bring some of those to market soon, and then, we do think that the things that we do to the satellites to enable that and really, kind of boost the existing mobile satellite services market substantially.
So we’re really interested in the services. Oh, the whole range of services that Inmarsat performance now. We think that’s a good foundation, for somebody who wants to go in you know, for anybody who wants to go into these, kind of direct to device markets.
Edison Yu: Understand. And you mentioned, D2D, and I think you’ve kind of alluded to some potential, paths into, getting in there. Do we have any kind of updated thoughts about D2D going forward, maybe on the using that extra L-band?
