The O3b company has finally got its first four satellites in orbit.
They were launched on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana after a day's delay due to unfavourable winds at the Sinnamary spaceport.
The satellites' deployment marks the first phase in O3b's construction of a novel telecommunications network.
It plans to put a constellation in the sky to handle voice and data traffic for mobile phone, internet and other service providers.
O3b is targeting parts of the world that currently have poor fibre-optic infrastructure.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23028083
They were launched on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana after a day's delay due to unfavourable winds at the Sinnamary spaceport.
The satellites' deployment marks the first phase in O3b's construction of a novel telecommunications network.
It plans to put a constellation in the sky to handle voice and data traffic for mobile phone, internet and other service providers.
O3b is targeting parts of the world that currently have poor fibre-optic infrastructure.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23028083
