Going up and over to bring broadband Down Under

摘要

Two minutes before the launch of the Sky Muster 2, NBN Chief Executive Bill Morrow looked anxious. He got up from his seat to stand in satellite manufacturer Space Systems Loral's conference room in Palo Alto, California, where he and a group of executives, including SSL President John Celli, gathered to watch the final countdown and preparation for Sky Muster 2's Oct. 5 launch in Kourou, French Guiana, on an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket that also carried the Indian Space Research Organisation's GSAT-18 telecommunications satellite. When the launch was successful, Morrow and his SSL hosts were obviously delighted.