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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 30, 2006</B>
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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Registration No.&nbsp;333- </B>________
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 5pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 5pt"><B>ViaSat, Inc.</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Delaware</B><BR>
(State or other jurisdiction of<BR>
Incorporation or organization)
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>33-0174996</B><BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 5pt"><B>6155 El Camino Real<BR>
Carlsbad, California 92009</B><BR>
(Address, including zip code, of Registrant&#146;s principal executive offices)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 5pt"><B>The ViaSat, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan</B><BR>
(Full Title of the Plan)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 5pt"><B>Gregory D. Monahan<BR>
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary<BR>
ViaSat, Inc.<BR>
6155 El Camino Real<BR>
Carlsbad, California 92009<BR>
(760)&nbsp;476-2200</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,
Including Area Code for Agent for Service)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 5pt"><B>Copies to:</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>Thomas A. Edwards, Esq.<BR>
Craig M. Garner, Esq.<BR>
Latham &#038; Watkins LLP<BR>
600 West Broadway, Suite&nbsp;1800<BR>
San Diego, California 92101<BR>
(619)&nbsp;236-1234</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B>
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                    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock, $0.0001 par value</DIV></TD>
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    <TD nowrap style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">(1) (2)</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">12,780,000</TD>
    <TD nowrap style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">(3)</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">12,780,000</TD>
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    <TD align="right" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">1,367,46</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration
Statement shall also cover any additional shares of common stock which become issuable under
the above-named plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any
other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results in an
increase in the number of our outstanding shares of common stock .</TD>
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    <TD>Covers 500,000 additional shares of common stock available for issuance under The ViaSat,
Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the &#147;Purchase Plan&#148;), pursuant to an amendment of the
Purchase Plan approved by the stockholders of the Registrant on September&nbsp;9, 2005. The
Purchase Plan authorizes the issuance of a maximum of 1,500,000 shares of common stock.
However, the offer and sale of 1,000,000 shares of common stock, which have been or may be
issued under the Purchase Plan, have previously been registered pursuant to Form S-8
Registration Statement Nos. 333-21113 and 333-40396.</TD>
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    <TD>This estimate is made pursuant to Rule 457(h) solely for purposes of calculating the
registration fee, and is based on the average of the high and low prices for the Registrant&#146;s
common stock as reported on the Nasdaq National Market on January 25, 2006.</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>Proposed sales to take place as soon after the effective date of this Registration Statement<BR>
as awards granted under the above-named plan are granted, exercised and/or distributed.</B>
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<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#001">Item&nbsp;3. <U>Incorporation of Documents by Reference</U>.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#002">Item&nbsp;8. <U>Exhibits</U>.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#003">SIGNATURES</A></TD></TR>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Registration Statement on Form S-8 registers the offer and sale of an additional 500,000
shares of common stock of ViaSat, Inc. for issuance under The ViaSat, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase
Plan. In accordance with Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the prior Registration
Statements, File Nos. 333-21113 and 333-40396, are hereby incorporated by reference.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) allows us to incorporate by
reference the information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information
to you by referring to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is an important
part of this Registration Statement, and information that we file later with the Commission will
automatically update and supersede this information. We incorporate by reference the following
documents we have filed, or may file, with the Commission:
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    <TD>Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April&nbsp;1, 2005, filed
by us with the Commission on June&nbsp;10, 2005.</TD>
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    <TD>Our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September&nbsp;30, 2005,
filed by us with the Commission on November&nbsp;7, 2005.</TD>
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    <TD>Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on November&nbsp;22, 2005,
May&nbsp;13, 2005 and May&nbsp;12, 2005.</TD>
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    <TD>The description of our common stock contained in our Registration Statement on
Form 8-A filed by us with the Commission on November&nbsp;20, 1996, under Section 12(g) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;), including any
amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.</TD>
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prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities covered hereby then remaining unsold are
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and are a part hereof from the date of
filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein, or in any subsequently
filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, modifies or
supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except
as so modified or superseded, to constitute part of this Registration Statement. Under no
circumstances will any information filed under former items 9 or 12 of Form 8-K or current items
2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K be deemed incorporated herein by reference unless such Form 8-K expressly
provides to the contrary.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following are the exhibits required by Item&nbsp;601 of Regulation&nbsp;S-K:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Carlsbad, State of California, on this
January 30, 2006.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS"><B>ViaSat, Inc.</B></FONT><BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>

<TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/
Ronald G. Wangerin</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">Ronald G. Wangerin
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">Title:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">Vice President, CFO&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby
constitutes and appoints Mark D. Dankberg and Ronald G. Wangerin, and each of them acting
individually, as his or her attorney-in-fact, each with full power of substitution, for him or her
in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement on Form
S-8, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said
attorneys-in-fact, or any substitute, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman<br>
<I>(Principal Executive Officer)</I>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January 30, 2006</TD>
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Ronald G. Wangerin
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer<br>
<I>(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)</i>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January 30, 2006</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Robert W. Johnson<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>Robert W. Johnson
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January 30, 2006</TD>
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<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Jeffrey M. Nash
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>Jeffrey M. Nash
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January 30, 2006</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ B. Allen Lay<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
B. Allen Lay
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January 30, 2006</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Michael B. Targoff<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Michael B. Targoff
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January 30, 2006</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ John P. Stenbit<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
John P. Stenbit
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January 30, 2006</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Harvey P. White<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Harvey P. White
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">January 30, 2006</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm.</TD>
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ViaSat, Inc.
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 30, 2006
Registration No. 333-
________
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
ViaSat, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
Incorporation or organization)
33-0174996
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
6155 El Camino Real
Carlsbad, California 92009
(Address, including zip code, of Registrant's principal executive offices)
The ViaSat, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(Full Title of the Plan)
Gregory D. Monahan
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
ViaSat, Inc.
6155 El Camino Real
Carlsbad, California 92009
(760) 476-2200
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,
Including Area Code for Agent for Service)
Copies to:
Thomas A. Edwards, Esq.
Craig M. Garner, Esq.
Latham & Watkins LLP
600 West Broadway, Suite 1800
San Diego, California 92101
(619) 236-1234
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
Maximum
Amount
Maximum
Amount of
Amount of
to be
Offering Price
Aggregate
Registration
Title of Securities to be Registered
Registered
Per Share
Offering Price
Fee
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value
500,000
(1) (2)
$
12,780,000
(3)
$
12,780,000
(3)
$
1,367,46
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration
Statement shall also cover any additional shares of common stock which become issuable under
the above-named plan by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any
other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results in an
increase in the number of our outstanding shares of common stock .
(2)
Covers 500,000 additional shares of common stock available for issuance under The ViaSat,
Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "Purchase Plan"), pursuant to an amendment of the
Purchase Plan approved by the stockholders of the Registrant on September 9, 2005. The
Purchase Plan authorizes the issuance of a maximum of 1,500,000 shares of common stock.
However, the offer and sale of 1,000,000 shares of common stock, which have been or may be
issued under the Purchase Plan, have previously been registered pursuant to Form S-8
Registration Statement Nos. 333-21113 and 333-40396.
(3)
This estimate is made pursuant to Rule 457(h) solely for purposes of calculating the
registration fee, and is based on the average of the high and low prices for the Registrant's
common stock as reported on the Nasdaq National Market on January 25, 2006.
Proposed sales to take place as soon after the effective date of this Registration Statement
as awards granted under the above-named plan are granted, exercised and/or distributed.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference
.
Item 8.
Exhibits
.
SIGNATURES
POWER OF ATTORNEY
EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT 5.1
EXHIBIT 23.1
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 registers the offer and sale of an additional 500,000
shares of common stock of ViaSat, Inc. for issuance under The ViaSat, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase
Plan. In accordance with Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the prior Registration
Statements, File Nos. 333-21113 and 333-40396, are hereby incorporated by reference.
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference
.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") allows us to incorporate by
reference the information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information
to you by referring to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is an important
part of this Registration Statement, and information that we file later with the Commission will
automatically update and supersede this information. We incorporate by reference the following
documents we have filed, or may file, with the Commission:
(1)
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 1, 2005, filed
by us with the Commission on June 10, 2005.
(2)
Our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2005,
filed by us with the Commission on November 7, 2005.
(3)
Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on November 22, 2005,
May 13, 2005 and May 12, 2005.
(4)
The description of our common stock contained in our Registration Statement on
Form 8-A filed by us with the Commission on November 20, 1996, under Section 12(g) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), including any
amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.
All documents filed by us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities covered hereby then remaining unsold are
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and are a part hereof from the date of
filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein, or in any subsequently
filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, modifies or
supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except
as so modified or superseded, to constitute part of this Registration Statement. Under no
circumstances will any information filed under former items 9 or 12 of Form 8-K or current items
2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K be deemed incorporated herein by reference unless such Form 8-K expressly
provides to the contrary.
Item 8.
Exhibits
.
The following are the exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K:
Exhibit
Number
5.1
Opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP.
23.1
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm.
23.2
Consent of Latham & Watkins LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on signature page of this Registration Statement).
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for
filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Carlsbad, State of California, on this
January 30, 2006.
ViaSat, Inc.
By:
/s/
Ronald G. Wangerin
Name:
Ronald G. Wangerin
Title:
Vice President, CFO
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby
constitutes and appoints Mark D. Dankberg and Ronald G. Wangerin, and each of them acting
individually, as his or her attorney-in-fact, each with full power of substitution, for him or her
in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement on Form
S-8, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said
attorneys-in-fact, or any substitute, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Mark D. Dankberg
Mark D. Dankberg
Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman
(Principal Executive Officer)
January 30, 2006
/s/ Ronald G. Wangerin
Ronald G. Wangerin
Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
January 30, 2006
/s/ Robert W. Johnson
Robert W. Johnson
Director
January 30, 2006
/s/ Jeffrey M. Nash
Jeffrey M. Nash
Director
January 30, 2006
/s/ B. Allen Lay
B. Allen Lay
Director
January 30, 2006
/s/ Michael B. Targoff
Michael B. Targoff
Director
January 30, 2006
/s/ John P. Stenbit
John P. Stenbit
Director
January 30, 2006
/s/ Harvey P. White
Harvey P. White
Director
January 30, 2006
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
5.1
Opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP.
23.1
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm.
23.2
Consent of Latham & Watkins LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on signature page of this Registration Statement).