WASHINGTON — By sometime this summer, satellite operator SES and satellite builder Boeing Satellite Systems International are likely to know whether the seventh and eighth O3b mPower satellites are free of the power-module short circuit that has reduced capacity on the first six models.
SES has been operating the first satellites at about 60% of their capacity while waiting for the new spacecraft to reach their 8,000-km medium-Earth orbit operating stations. SES Chief Executive Adel Al-Saleh on March 10 described how SES plans to ramp . . .
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