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Inmarsat Government Delivers Communications Support for Successful Expedition to Antarctica.

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TELECOMWORLDWIRE-April 16, 2020-Inmarsat Government Delivers Communications Support for Successful Expedition to Antarctica

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Inmarsat Government, a provider of secure, global, mission-critical telecommunications to the US Government, has announced that it has successfully provided mobile communications support to the South Orkney Expedition, the company said.

This multidisciplinary expedition, supported by the research vessel RV Braveheart, took place on Signy Island from February 21 to March 6, 2020. The South Orkney Islands are located in the Southern Ocean, about 375 miles north-east of the Antarctic Peninsula.

This expedition was undertaken by the Perseverance DX Group, a nonprofit expedition organization that conducted record-setting, multi-mode high frequency (HF) communications using amateur radio frequencies, ranging from just above the Amplitude Modulated (AM) broadcast band to the edge of the very high frequency (VHF) band, under widely varying space weather (ionospheric and solar flux) conditions. The team also collected marine sediment samples for scientific research.

Additionally, middle and high school science teachers were provided information for use in their classrooms on a number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) topics. The expedition team also tested satellite communications and new amateur radio...

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