A trial has been using ships and land-based signal towers as nodes in a satellite-based maritime mesh network. The goal is to deliver additional capacity and relieve congestion for ship-to-shore and ship-to-ship connectivity. The initiative comes from Inmarsat for its Orchestra network, which brings together its geosynchronous (GEO) satellites with low earth orbit satellites (LEO) …
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