PARIS — Startup satellite broadband provider O3b Networks has secured the backing of France’s Coface export-credit agency for a $465 million loan to support the company’s construction and launch of eight medium Earth orbit Ka-band satellites, according to O3b’s chief executive and the project’s prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space of France and Italy.
Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews. More by Peter B. de Selding
