ICO Global Communications will be launching their satellite, the ICO G-1, from Cape Canaveral, Florida in April.
The geosynchronous satellite will be used to transmit video, navigation and emergency assistance information to mobile devices in vehicles. The service, called ICO mim (mim = "mobile interactive media") will be run in trial-mode by the end of this year, and will be offered commercially in early 2009, according to ICO executives.
ICO G-1, built by Space Systems/Loral, will be launched by Lockheed Martin on April 14th. The spacecraft will be shipped to the Cape this week.
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If media delivery through satellites is projected to be dead as everything is expected to go through a nationwide WIFI, so say some experts, then why is this company spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this so called dead issue?
Launch will be in January - scratch
Launch will be in February - scratch
Launch will be in March - scratch
Launch will be in April - we'll see
Wait until they get to try the Alcatel-Lucent chipset...
ICO has a long pending request to extend their launch date. Presumably the FCC will HAVE to grant it since there's no way ICO will be ready to go in two months.