PARIS — Boeing said the six O3b mPower broadband satellites in medium-Earth orbit for customer SES have delivered “exceptional” performance from their software-defined, flexible payloads despite the power supply issue that could reduce their output and orbital service lives.
Boeing has said the defect is unrelated to the satellites’ software-defined payloads, which was key to SES’s decision to purchase a second-generation O3b constellation from Boeing rather than from incumbent provider Thales Alenia Space.
Thales and Airbus Defence and . . .
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