Originally Posted by
tescoapp
yep leaving 12 more to get launched, plan for 2 in 2020, 2 in 2021.
leaving 8 post 2022.
And that's not replacing the broken birds.
700 million a year fixed costs. And no funding confirmed past 2020.
You keep on about these alleged "broken birds". Perhaps you would like to tell us where you get this information from, other than years-old reports?
Some of the early satellites did have clock problems, but these have been largely worked around and the later ones are working normally. Only two of the originals are currently held out of service.
When the four newly positioned satellites are fully commissioned there will be 21 providing normal service. Contracts for some of the later ones are still being negotiated. Some of these are for hot spares and not required for immediate service.