Boeing [NYSE: BA] has shipped the Thuraya-2 mobile communications satellite from its Boeing Satellite Systems manufacturing facility in El Segundo, Calif., to the Sea Launch home port in Long Beach, Calif., where it is being prepared for an early June launch.

The satellite is the second spacecraft built and shipped by Boeing for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The satellite will be lifted into orbit by a Zenit-3SL rocket from the Odyssey launch platform.