Inmarsat has completed
its broadband satellite network with the launch of the third
Inmarsat-4 satellite. Inmarsat has invested $1.5bn over the past 10
years creating the network, which it says will be accessible to 98%
of the world's population. The satellite was launched on a Proton
Breeze M rocket from the
Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11.43pm BST on 18 August.