{"id":54477,"date":"2022-10-31T21:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telstra-expands-ground-stations-in-australia-to-support-inmarsat-i-6-fi-satellite\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T21:48:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:48:01","slug":"telstra-expands-ground-stations-in-australia-to-support-inmarsat-i-6-fi-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telstra-expands-ground-stations-in-australia-to-support-inmarsat-i-6-fi-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Telstra Expands Ground Stations in Australia to Support Inmarsat I-6 FI Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telstra<\/strong> has expanded ground stations in Perth and Merredin, Western Australia with additional antennas to support <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong>\u2019s I-6 F1 satellite, the company announced Monday. Telstra has added a second 9-meter antenna to the Perth site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I-6 F1, launched in December 2021, is the first of two Inmarsat-6 satellites to support the narrowband Elera network, and Global Xpress broadband service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new satellite access station (SAS) forms a link between the satellite and terrestrial networks allowing connectivity to be transported immediately to its destinations across the globe. Inmarsat COO Jason Smith said the ground stations are a \u201ccrucial part of our ambition to transform and enhance connectivity services and solutions for our mobility, government and Internet of Things customers worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inmarsat shared a time-lapse video of the project build.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInmarsat\u2019s I-6 F1 and the new ground station have really moved the global space race along and entrenched Australia\u2019s position as a front runner in satellite communications,\u201d said Matt Williams, managing director of Telstra EMEA. \u201cThis is just the tip of the iceberg of Telstra\u2019s global projects underway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telstra has expanded ground stations in Perth and Merredin, Western Australia with additional antennas to support Inmarsat\u2019s I-6 F1 satellite, the company announced Monday. Telstra has added a second 9-meter antenna to the Perth site.&nbsp; I-6 F1, launched in December 2021, is the first of two Inmarsat-6 satellites to support the narrowband Elera network, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}