Senior Notes and Other Long-Term Debt (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Components of Long-Term Debt

Total long-term debt consisted of the following as of March 31, 2024 and 2023:

	As of March 31, 2024			As of March 31, 2023
	(In thousands)
2031 Notes	$	733,400		$	—
2028 Notes		400,000			400,000
2027 Notes		600,000			600,000
Inmarsat 2026 Notes		2,075,000			—
2025 Notes		700,000			700,000
2022 Term Loan Facility		687,750			694,750
2023 Term Loan Facility		613,617			—
Inmarsat Term Loan Facilities		1,600,000			—
Ex-Im Credit Facility		39,304			58,957
Viasat Revolving Credit Facility		—			—
Inmarsat Revolving Credit Facility		—			—
Finance lease obligations (see Note 7)		26,771			36,405
Total debt		7,475,842			2,490,112
Unamortized discount, debt issuance costs and fair value adjustments made in purchase accounting		(288,553	)		(30,672	)
Less: current portion of long-term debt		58,054			37,939
Total long-term debt	$	7,129,235		$	2,421,501

Aggregate Payments on Long-Term Debt Obligations

The estimated aggregate amounts and timing of payments on the Company’s long-term debt obligations as of March 31, 2024 for the next five fiscal years and thereafter were as follows (excluding the effects of discount accretion under the Notes, the Term Loan Facilities and the Ex-Im Credit Facility):

For the Fiscal Years Ending	(In thousands)
2025	$	58,054
2026		757,317
2027		2,404,164
2028		626,195
2029		1,078,930
Thereafter		2,551,182
		7,475,842
Plus: unamortized discount, debt issuance costs and fair value adjustments made in purchase accounting		(288,553	)
Total	$	7,187,289