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SatCom

EMS Enters the SatCom Fray

Advances in communication services for ships and boats is expanding rapidly, keeping pace with development cycles of landside installations. Last autumn.

Inmarsat unveiled Fleet F55 and Fleet

F33. the two new members of the Fleet family designed to meet the communi- cation needs of small to medium-sized vessels. Earlier this year, EMS SAT-

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Oslo, the company announced that it has received full Inmarsat type-approval for its new Fleet 55 Maritime satellite ter- minal.

A New Path

EMS Technologies is a $310 million company with 1,800 employees world- wide. In 1968, Dr. John E. Pippin, then vice president of Research at Scientific-

Atlanta, founded Electromagnetic

Sciences (now EMS Technologies) in

Atlanta, Ga. The company quickly evolved to be a leading developer and

HM Bark Endeavo

Brought Into 21st

In 1768 British-born explorer Lt.

James Cook and his crew set sail on the

HM Bark Endeavour on one of the most significant maritime voyages ever. After observing the transit of Venus across the sun in the Pacific, they headed south- west to New Zealand, traveling up the east coast of Australia, then on to the

Dutch East Indies (Jakarta and

Indonesia). Contrary to popular belief,

Cook didn't discover Australia — he wasn't even the first European to arrive there. What's most remarkable about his journey was his use of cutting-edge 18th century scientific techniques to chart a substantial part of the coastline and fix the continent. On this voyage Cook became the first to calculate his longitu- dinal position with accuracy, using a complex mathematical formula that was only developed in the 1760s. Given his love of science, the 18th century explor- er would certainly have chosen the best satellite communications if he had been making the journey today. Which per- haps explains why, when a replica of the famous HM Bark Endeavour was being constructed for a BBC TV series The

Ship a few years ago, it was fitted with the latest Inmarsat-based equipment.

Now EMS Satcom has updated HM

Bark Endeavour once more, choosing the vessel for beta trials of it latest Fleet

F55 terminal because of the extremes it operates in. Replacing a mini-M that was already onboard, the Fleet F55 has enabled a wireless LAN (Local Area

Network) to be set up on board the ves-