December 2018

Best Safety Service of the Year*

The International Maritime Organisation’s Maritime Safety Committee has formally recognised Inmarsat’s ‘Fleet Safety’ solution as a new service to support the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System; and the associated Maritime Safety Terminal has won a prestigious award (*Safety at Sea Awards 2018).

MST – Fact sheet (supplied by Inmarsat)

HARMONISED INTERFACE

The IMO and industry are keen to have a standardised display on board safety terminals. This makes life easier in a distress situation as no matter what make or type of Inmarsat Fleet Safety terminal the seafarer uses, the layout and style will be the same.

Distress Alerting

This is the main function of GMDSS. Enabling a vessel to contact the rescue authorities with full distress priority, when there is imminent danger to loss of life or vessel.

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4th ESA Workshop on Advanced Flexible Telecom Payloads

4-6 Mar 2019, ESTEC, Noordwijk (The Netherlands)

The European Space Agency’s directorates of Technical and Quality Management (TEC) and Telecommunications and Integrated Applications (TIA) are organising the 4th ESA Workshop on Advanced Flexible Telecom Payloads.

ARTES 25 Years of Telecom: Interview with Nick Appleyard

As ESA’s umbrella programme for telecom, ARTES, celebrates its 25th year, we will be examining why it was set up, how it and the European satcom environment have evolved, the opportunities and challenges that both face today, and what the future holds.