PARIS— Satellite fleet operator SES is hedging its bets on whether its O3b mPower constellation will be ready to enter service by the end of the year as a result of the delays following a power-module anomaly on the first four mPower satellites now in orbit, SES Chief Executive Ruy Pinto said.
The fifth and sixth mPower spacecraft are now scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in October, with what Pinto called “early entry services” to start “by the end of this year or early next year . . .
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