Galileo Delay Could Save Arianespace from Difficult Decision

摘要

A confrontation between the European Commission and the world's second-largest commercial satellite fleet operator about priority access to a June launch slot appears to have been resolved with delays in the delivery of the commission's spacecraft, government and industry officials said. As a result, a June slot for a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket is all but certain to be given to O3b Networks, a startup broadband satellite operator that badly needs to add to its in-orbit constellation.