Also known as O3b Satellite Constellation
O3b is a satellite constellation in Medium Earth orbit (MEO) owned and operated by SES, and designed to provide lower-latency broadband connectivity to remote locations for mobile network operators and internet service providers, maritime, aviation, and government and defence. It is often referred to as O3b MEO to distinguish these satellites from SES's O3b mPOWER constellation.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spacecraft constellation
- Subclass of
- communications satellite
- Owned by
- O3b Networks, Ltd.
- Operator
- O3b Networks, Ltd.
- Developer
- Thales Alenia Space
- Significant event
- rocket launch
- Has use
- backhaul
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- start point
- Ensemble de Lancement Soyouz
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2013-06-25
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- History
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- List of satellites
- Use of medium Earth orbit
- See also
- References
O3b is a satellite constellation in Medium Earth orbit (MEO) owned and operated by SES, and designed to provide lower-latency broadband connectivity to remote locations for mobile network operators and internet service providers, maritime, aviation, and government and defence. It is often referred to as O3b MEO to distinguish these satellites from SES's O3b mPOWER constellation.
O3b originally stood for "other three billion", or the other three billion people at the time that did not have stable internet access, and the constellation was initially built, owned and operated by O3b Networks, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of SES in 2016 and ownership and operation of the constellation passed to SES Networks, a division of SES. The O3b MEO constellation began offering service in March 2014.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “O3b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.