Inmarsat is also entering a new field, the fixed satellite business ("fixed" refers to the customer, not the satellite) and will access very-small-aperture terminals (VSATs) of the type maintained by fixed satellite service purveyors like Intelsat.

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The type of image displayed on this page is known as a synthetic aperture radar interferogram.

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