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Mar. 31, 2019
Commitments And Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Commitments | Note 11 — Commitments In January 2008, the Company entered into several agreements with Space Systems/Loral, Inc. (SS/L), its former parent company Loral Space & Communications, Inc. (Loral) and Telesat Canada related to the Company’s ViaSat-1 satellite, which was placed into service in January 2012. In May 2013, the Company entered into an agreement to purchase the ViaSat-2 satellite from The Boeing Company (Boeing), which satellite was placed into service during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018. The Company’s contracts with SS/L and Boeing require the Company to make monthly in-orbit satellite performance incentive payments, including interest through approximately fiscal year 2028, subject to the continued satisfactory performance of the satellites. The Company records the net present value of these expected future payments as a liability and as a component of the cost of the satellites. As of March 31, 2019, the Company’s estimated satellite performance incentive obligations and accrued interest for the ViaSat-1 and ViaSat-2 satellites were approximately $28.2 million, of which $2.9 million and $25.3 million have been classified as current in accrued liabilities and non-current in other liabilities, respectively. Under the satellite construction contracts with SS/L and Boeing, the Company may incur up to $37.0 million in total costs for satellite performance incentive obligations and related interest earned through approximately fiscal year 2028 with potential future minimum payments of $2.6 million, $2.8 million, $3.3 million, $5.0 million and $5.3 million in fiscal years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, respectively, with $18.0 million in commitments thereafter. In July 2016, the Company entered into two separate agreements with Boeing for the construction and purchase of two ViaSat-3 class satellites and the integration of Viasat’s payload technologies into the satellites. Pursuant to these agreements, as amended, the aggregate purchase price for the two satellites is approximately $390.1 million (subject to purchase price adjustments based on factors such as launch delay and early delivery), plus an additional amount for launch support services to be performed by Boeing. In addition, under one of these agreements, the Company had the option to order one additional ViaSat-3 class satellite, with respect to which the Company signed an agreement to proceed in January 2019 for the third ViaSat-3 class satellite. The first ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to provide broadband services over the Americas, the second is expected to provide broadband services over the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, and the third is expected to provide broadband services over Asia and Pacific (APAC) region, enabling the Company to deliver affordable connectivity worldwide. In addition to the satellite construction agreements described above, the Company also enters into various other satellite-related purchase commitments, including with respect to the provision of launch services, operation of our satellites and satellite insurance. As of March 31, 2019, future minimum payments under the Company’s satellite construction contracts and other satellite-related purchase commitments for the next five fiscal years and thereafter were as follows:
Fiscal Years Ending |  | (In thousands) |
2020 |  | $ | 362,800 |
2021 |  |  | 147,386 |
2022 |  |  | 162,091 |
2023 |  |  | 107,304 |
2024 |  |  | 7,234 |
Thereafter |  |  | 14,178 |
|  | $ | 800,993 |
The Company has various other purchase commitments under satellite capacity agreements which are used to provide satellite networking services to its customers for future minimum payments of approximately $68.4 million, $53.0 million, $25.6 million, $19.8 million and $1.8 million in fiscal years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, respectively, and no further minimum payments thereafter. The Company leases office and other facilities under non-cancelable operating leases which expire between fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2033 with initial terms ranging from one to 15 years and which provide for pre-negotiated fixed rental rates during the terms of the lease. Certain of the Company’s facilities leases contain option provisions which allow for extension of the lease terms. For operating leases, minimum lease payments, including minimum scheduled rent increases, are recognized as rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term as that term is defined in the authoritative guidance for leases including any option periods considered in the lease term and any periods during which the Company has use of the property but is not charged rent by a landlord (rent holiday). Leasehold improvement incentives paid to the Company by a landlord are recorded as a liability and amortized as a reduction of rent expense over the lease term. Total rent expense was $53.5 million, $41.2 million and $34.0 million in fiscal years 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively. As of March 31, 2019, future minimum lease payments for the next five fiscal years and thereafter were as follows:
Fiscal Years Ending |  | (In thousands) |
2020 |  | $ | 59,164 |
2021 |  |  | 59,452 |
2022 |  |  | 57,500 |
2023 |  |  | 50,933 |
2024 |  |  | 51,000 |
Thereafter |  |  | 183,077 |
|  | $ | 461,126 |

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