The Russian Soyuz rocket has successfully completed its tenth successful launch operated by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Center. On board, four new satellite Thales Alenia Space on behalf of the operator O3b Networks. And sigh of relief after the episode of the two Galileo satellites that had not reached the desired orbit, the mission was a complete success.
In a life of ten years, the four satellites were placed in orbit at an average 8,062 km altitude along the equator and round off now formed a constellation of 12 satellites and fully operational. O3b for the two previous launches took place in June 2013 and July 2014.
Other 3 billion O3b means and the goal of providing Internet access in broadband, low-cost, low-latency ( 130 ms) to “other three billion” who do not benefit from such connectivity. This applies to people in emerging countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia and the Middle East. A cover nearly 180 countries.
O3b Networks has launched its service in September to places like the Colombian Amazon, Kinshasa (the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo), South Sudan and Papua New Guinea.
The capacity is over 100 Gbps but O3b Networks aims for the future to increase to more than 1 Tbps. The idea of O3b had germinated in the mind of the businessman Greg Wyler. Today, the partners SES (communication satellite operator), HSBC, Liberty Global cable television group, or that Google does not think so as balloons Loon project.
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