O3b Plans Launch of Four Satellites for Web Access

O3b Networks plan to launch four satellites Thursday. The satellites will be part of O3b's network that's designed to connect people "who have historically lacked proper access to the Internet," it said last week in a news release. The satellites are to launch from French Guiana, O3b said. Once launched, they'll go through a period of in-orbit testing before being fully integrated into the O3b network, it said.