When used with satellite links, traditional TCP suffers from a number of performance problems, especially for higher propagation delay, bit error rate, asymmetrical bandwidth and signal attenuation due to rain. A new active proxy without breaking TCP semantic is proposed to improve TCP performance of satellite network. The congestion control algorithm in the proxy sets the window size according to the measurement information on bandwidth changes from the two probe packet pairs with different priorities. A stability analysis of the hybrid proxy system is performed. The loss recovery based on selective negative acknowledgement (SNACK) can work even if the clocks is not synchronized. The results demonstrate that proxy in combination with SNACK allows TCP to fully exploit the possible throughput of the satellite network.