The first of three Inmarsat I-4 satellites is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, next Thursday, and will be the largest commercial satellite in the sky, company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Andrew Sukawaty said in an interview Tuesday.
I-4 is the fourth-generation of Inmarsat satellites, and will be the backbone of the company's Broadband Global Area Network, offering at least 10 times the communications capacity of the current network. The new satellites will allow the company to offer data speeds of up to 432K bits per second for uses such as video-on demand, video conferencing, phone, e-mail, LAN, Internet and intranet services, it said.
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