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Inmarsat-3 F4 Traffic To Start Migrating to F5 Thursday

With its Inmarsat-3 F5 satellite in orbit and to take over traffic currently carried by Inmarsat-3 F4 starting on Thursday, Inmarsat is asking the FCC International Bureau for a 60-day special temporary authorization starting that day for F5 to operate…

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with mobile earth stations while an application to replace F4 with F5 is pending. The two satellites were last in a series of third-generation satellites and are virtually identical in design and operate in the same parameters, Inmarsat said in a set of IB filings last Thursday (see here, here and here).