Satellite Telecommunications
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- COMSAT Marks 10 Years Of Commercial Maritime Satellite Communications Maritime Reporter, Sep 1986 #14
COMSAT Corporation of Washington, D.C., is this year celebrating the 10th anniversary of the world's first commercial maritime communications satellite system. The first commercial telephone transmission through the company's MARISAT System took place on July 9, 1976.
According to COMSAT Maritime Services officials, the first call passed routinely through the system.
It was a business call between the seismic ship Deep Sea Explorer, searching for oil in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar, and the home office of Phillips Petroleum Company in Bartlesville, Okla.
The MARISAT System was designed and developed by COMSAT General, a subsidiary of COMSAT Corporation. COMSAT General successfully launched three MARISAT satellites in 1976, one over each ocean region, which allowed cost-effective sharing of satellite telecommunications services for both military and commercial maritime interests.
In the 10 years since the initiation of maritime satellite communications, the system has grown dramatically along with the range of services available. In 1982 the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) was formed, and today 46 countries are members.
More than 4,000 vessels and offshore oil platforms have been equipped with ship earth stations, allowing more than 300,000 people per day to have access to satellite communications on the high seas.
COMSAT Corporation was selected to represent the U.S. in INMARSAT, and currently utilizes and therefore owns 29 percent of the system. COMSAT Maritime Services oversees the company's role in INMARSAT, and has been instrumental in developing and marketing new services for the seafaring community.
It was responsible for the first live television satellite broadcast to a ship at sea when it transmitted the Super Bowl game to the Queen Elizabeth 2 off the coast of Peru early this year.
For additional information and free literature on COMSAT's maritime satellite services, Circle 58 on Reader Service Card
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- Pientka And Brooks Named Vice Presidents At Comstat TeleSystems Maritime Reporter, Oct 15, 1984 #39
is establishing a worldwide organization for the system installation, maintenance, training, and repair service of a wide variety of satellite telecommunications equipment. He will be responsible for all aspects of the development, implementation, and direction of this organization. Mr. Brooks
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- NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Maritime Reporter, Dec 1986 #54
Corporation of Washington, D.C., is celebrating this year the 10th anniversary of the world's first commercial maritime communications satellite system. The first commercial telephone transmission through the company's MARISAT System took place on July 9, 1976. According to COMSAT Maritime Ser
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 23modern instrumentation. Booms were heard as far away as Yukon, Canada; widespread atmospheric shockwaves and intense lighting storms were recorded; and satellites captured stunning images of the eruption. This catastrophic event not only shook the world but catalyzed an urgency for understanding sub- marine
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 22FEATURE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION & SENSORS Aerial view of HT-HH volcano, showing new multibeam depth data overlaid on islands satellite image. © SEA-KIT, NIWA-Nippon Foundation TESMaP 22 March/April 2024 MTR #3 (18-33).indd 22 4/4/2024 9:08:10 AM
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42OPINION: The Final Word GAO: USCG Should Address Workforce Recruitment and Retention Challenges By Heather MacLeod, Director, GAO’s Homeland Security and Justice team he Coast Guard has strug- Coast Guard established cyberspace as vessels to determine whether they meet gled for years to recruit an
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 20. So we can link up to various wire- push for residency for ] autonomous subsea vehicles, [a subsea less communications including the growing low orbit satellite docking station that needs power]. There’s emerging things like network, Starlink and others. Within that we can offer a cost subsea data centers
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 54Feature Great Vessels of 2023 All American Marine SHACKLEFORD Built to service the growing offshore wind market as allowing accurate and repeatable lever arm calculations to well as accomplish many other scienti? c survey missions, all survey sensors. Coordinate Uncertainty Analysis of the Shackleford
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 73liberation is well within reach with see what the market bares now that might meet our collective the only limiting factor being availability and full satellite needs. constellation deployment, which will occur sometime this The RDC has been evaluating and testing Starlink and re- year, depending on the
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 30. This data comes from modelled data from global to several factors including material fatigue and the forces im- weather and marine models as well as satellite, lightning, weather posed on the hull as a result of the weather conditions. station, wave buoy, current meter, and tide gauge data. Some data Survey
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 22Conference at this year’s London In- T ternational Shipping Week examined how the industry can move from talk to practical solutions that can ensure satellite technology plays a decisive role in shaping smarter and more sus- tainable shipping. Inmarsat Maritime presi- dent Ben Palmer provided the scene-settin
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 16robots speci? cally designed to the operator and the robot, optimizing how limited radio or target microfouling (the early slime and algae that forms satellite bandwidth is used. A vessel’s crew merely needs on ship hulls), hull cleaning can be completed more eco- to communicate back to Greensea IQ that
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 51back in real time over the available redundant communi- cations methods including RF for line of sight, cellular for nearshore when available, and satellite for over the ho- rizon operations. The USV can also be equipped with custom communications www.marinetechnologynews.com 51 MTR #7 (50-65).indd
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 23to provide a ground truth for the satel- lite. The four Wirewalker moorings are part of an overall 11 mooring array, situated directly under the satellite ? ight path to gather snapshots of steric height for comparison with the measurements gathered from space. The Cal/Val moor- ings are designed
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September 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 21a user onsite to capture monitoring. For remote operations, the technical experts onshore, more simul- and stream video, with two-way audio load on satellite communications is far taneous work can be undertaken more communication, with experts viewing higher due to the requirement for ex- ef? ciently
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September 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20to effectively digitalize their operations. Additionally, the technology enables an inspector to carry Nonetheless, changes in the availability of satellite band- out remote audits and inspections on several vessels simulta- width and the ability to use technology to better utilize avail- neously, alongside
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June 2023 - Marine News page: 19mutu- ally recognizing and agreeing on new laws and regulations. As a maritime society, we have pro- gressed from sails to engines, from sex- tants to satellites, and from parallel rul- ers to GPS networks setting courses. As technology has advanced, the maritime industry has collaborated and met the challenges
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August 2023 - Marine News page: 45? cient already commenced at the beginning OneWeb’s LEO Network mixed-? ow pump design, compact of 2023. MAN is currently planning a Flat panel satellite antenna company in-board footprint, narrow width for ? rst retro? t project based on an MAN Kymeta and low Earth orbit (LEO) compact driveline
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August 2023 - Marine News page: 26Feature Comms the noise. He was later informed that some had been in- systems, featuring advanced Digital Enhanced Cordless jured and even killed by propellers and jet intakes. Telecommunications (DECT) technology, provide users Months later, while visiting the home of David Clark, with all the communicati
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August 2023 - Marine News page: 20solar powered “drifter” hull to track a voy- age across the Atlantic Ocean. Students in the program de- signed and built the boat, and then tracked it by satellite. The project allowed them to learn about ocean currents, weather, hull integrity and GPS technology. The ? rst drifter launched off the U.S. East
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42landing stations connected workforce and more ? exibility and reliability com- (CLS) – one located at Praia Grande, state of São Paulo and the pared to satellite connections that can be severely impacted by other at Praia da Macumba, state of Rio de Janeiro. weather and other natural events. Petrobras is
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 41Can you talk about the technical aspects of sub- sea ? ber optic cables? How do these cables differ in diameter, capacity, length, material, cost etc.? How is this technology evolving? © Pioneer Consulting Much like standard telecommunication systems, offshore energy cable systems typically consist of a
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 40CABLING PIONEER CONSULTING © 2022 by Andre Ribeiro/Agência Petrobras Subsea Fiber Optic Cable Systems for Offshore Energy Projects: Q&A with Pioneer Consulting’s Austin Shields Pioneer Consulting, a subsea ? ber optic telecommunications consulting and project management company, was last year awarded a
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 29data standards, lite telemetry to increase understanding of The organization is also home to the stated communications manager Anja species movement. Satellite tags provide OTN Data Center (OTNDC), which con- Samardzic. “OTN partners with several a wide range and more data, while acous- nects a global
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 27? cult to rely on, scientists now have an answer: marine telemetry. Tracking the Truth Marine wildlife telemetry takes two common forms: acoustic and satellite. Acoustic tags are predicated on a system of transmit- ters, either implanted in or attached to an animal. As the organism comes within range of
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 25little as 1 cm in 4,000 m depth) caused by an earthquake in the deep ocean. If a tsunami wave is detected, an alert message is transmitted up to a satellite buoy on the surface. From there, it is relayed to the national Tsu- nami Warning Center onshore for com- parison with recent seismic activity. If
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 4R. Trauthwein another piece of maritime business, a ‘bucket list’ trip to watch a SpaceX rocket launch [email protected] deliver a new Inmarsat satellite to orbit. Since I was in the neighborhood, I requested a Contributing Writers visit to FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, and was welcomed