The project's developers explained that the first four of 12 satellites in a new constellation to upsurge affordable, high-speed Internet to people in nearly 180 under-connected countries, will be aimed into space on Tuesday. Furthermore, the orbiters which happens to be part of a project dubbed O3b for the other 3 billion people accompanying confined Internet access, will be lifted by a Russian Soyuz rocket from Kourou in French Guiana at 1854 GMT.

O3b Networks chief technical officer Brian Holz explained in a statement that they are very close to launching a network that has the potential to change lives in very recognizable ways and that is a tremendous feeling. The project was born from Internet pioneer Greg Wyler's  instance of being frustrated with the insufficiency of Rwanda's telecommunications network, during travelling there in 2007.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)