• Marisat satellites were the first maritime telecommunications satellites and were designed to provide dependable telecommunications for commercial shipping...
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  • Marisat 2 (or Marisat F2) is a communications satellite operated by COMSAT. Marisat 2 was the second of a series of COMSAT maritime communications satellites...
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  • Marisat 1 (or Marisat F1) is a communications satellite operated by COMSAT. Marisat 1 was the first of a series of Marisat COMSAT maritime communications...
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  • Marisat 3 (or Marisat F3) is a communications satellite operated by COMSAT. Marisat 3 was the second of a series of COMSAT maritime communications satellites...
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    Area Network (BGAN) service. Inmarsat at first provided services using Marisat and MARECS, which were launched by the US Navy and ESA respectively. In...
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  • by access via NASA's TDRS-F1, GOES & Iridium satellite constellation. Marisat F-2 provided data communications until it was retired in 2008. For the...
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  • was employed in the nascent Ethernet cable based network and then in the Marisat (now Inmarsat) satellite network. In the early 1980s frequencies for mobile...
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  • company named Comsat General was formed. In 1982, the Marisat satellites, along with three Marisat Earth stations (two in the US — Southbury, Connecticut...
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    command and control of both Marisat and Comstar satellites and for shore communications to the Atlantic and Pacific Marisat satellites. Briskman joined...
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    station, but it failed in October 2009 and was subsequently decommissioned. Marisat and LES9 were also formerly used. In July 2016, the GOES-3 satellite was...
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  • with COMSAT General Corporation's (another business unit of COMSAT Corp) MARISAT system, CMC sparked a revolution in medium- and long-distance maritime...
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    D.C., where he oversaw the development and deployment of the Comstar, Marisat and Aerosat communication satellite programs. John Landrum Martin Jr. was...
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  • Success 108 1976-02-19 22:32 Delta 2914 Delta 120 Thor 603 CCAFS SLC-17B Marisat-1 Communication satellite GTO Success 109 1976-03-26 22:42 Delta 3914 Delta...
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    for communications with the North and then the South Pole. Along with Marisat F2, GOES 3 and LES-9, it was one of a number of satellites that were transferred...
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  • Satellite Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 August 2016. "Outliving expectations: Marisat-F2 satellite held on for 32 years, served South Pole for 8". Spaceref.com...
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    one orbit 19 February 22:32 Delta 2914 D-120 Cape Canaveral SLC-17B Marisat-1 Marisat Geostationary Communications In orbit Successful 20 February 14:01...
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    to dock. Five hours later, the U.S. maritime communications satellites Marisat 3, second in the COMSAT series, was launched at 22:44 UTC (5:44 p.m. local...
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    December 11, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2009. "Outliving expectations: Marisat-F2 satellite held on for 32 years, served South Pole for 8". Spaceref....
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  • one orbit. 1976-02-19 22:32 Delta 2914 Delta 120 Thor 603 CCAFS SLC-17B Marisat-1 Communication satellite GTO Success 1976-02-29 03:30 N-I N-2 (F) Tanegashima...
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    months after the first arrests had been made. The United States launched Marisat 2, the second of its series of geosynchronous maritime communications satellites...
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    the making, through international research and cooperation. September: Marisat satellite communications terminals installed on the Australian vessels...
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