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Mission Reports

Soyuz launch deploys last of O3b’s first-generation broadband satellites

April 4, 2019 Stephen Clark

The launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with four more satellites Thursday to join SES’s O3b broadband network will help satisfy growing bandwidth demands in Latin America, Africa and the Pacific islands until the deployment of a new generation of upgraded spacecraft in 2021, SES officials said.

Mission Reports

Live coverage: Four more O3b broadband launch aboard Soyuz rocket

April 4, 2019 Stephen Clark

Four more satellites for SES Networks’ O3b broadband fleet launched Thursday aboard a Soyuz rocket. Liftoff of the Soyuz launcher from the Guiana Space Center in South America occurred at 1703 GMT (1:03 p.m. EDT).

Mission Reports

Two Soyuz rockets rolled out for launches on different continents

April 2, 2019 Stephen Clark

Russian ground crews working in starkly different environments on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan and in the lush jungles of South America are readying a pair of Soyuz rockets for two launches Thursday, one to resupply the International Space Station, and another to broaden the capacity of SES’s O3b Internet network.

News Headlines

  • SpaceX to launch 2 Starshield satellites during Saturday night Starlink mission
    June 6, 2026
  • NASA crew briefly shelters inside Dragon capsule as Russia addresses new space station leaks
    June 5, 2026
  • NASA head urges new launcher for Blue Origin’s moon landers to meet Artemis mission deadlines
    June 4, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg
    June 3, 2026
  • Blue Origin vows to resume New Glenn flights by year’s end
    June 3, 2026
  • SpaceX launches sunrise Starlink mission following weather scrub
    June 3, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 50th Starlink mission of 2026
    May 30, 2026
  • ULA launches 29 Amazon Leo satellites on Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral
    May 29, 2026
  • Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explodes during prelaunch testing at Cape Canaveral
    May 29, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
    May 29, 2026
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