The satellite will round out Inmarsat’s billion-dollar Global Xpress constellation, designed to provide broadband services to mobile and fixed-site users around the world.

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Warren Ferster is the Editor-in-Chief of SpaceNews and is responsible for all the news and editorial coverage in the weekly newspaper, the spacenews.com Web site and variety of specialty publications such as show dailies. He manages a staff of seven reporters...