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Inmarsat plc is a British satellite telecommunications company, offering global, mobile services, using a fleet of communications satellites. It provides telephony and data services to users worldwide, via portable or mobile terminals which communicate to ground stations through eleven geostationary telecommunications satellites. Inmarsat's network provides communications services to a range of governments, aid agencies, media outlets and businesses with a need to communicate in remote regions or where there is no reliable terrestrial network. 

Aside from its commercial services, Inmarsat provides global maritime distress and safety services (GMDSS) to ships and aircraft at no charge, as a public service.

The Inmarsat satellites are digital transponders that receive digital signals, reform the pulses, and then retransmit them to ground stations. Ground stations maintain usage and billing data and function as gateways to the public switched telephone network and the Internet.

Arabsat is a satellite services provider. Founded in 1976 by the 21 member-states of the Arab League, Arabsat has been serving the growing needs of the Arab world for over 30 years.

Now one of the world’s top satellite operators, and by far the leading satellite services provider in the Arab world, it carries over 400 TV channels and 160 Radio stations, reaching tens of millions of homes in more than 100 countries across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Central Asia--and way beyond including an audience of over 164 million viewers within the 21 Arab countries alone ("2009 MENA Sat-TV Landscape:" study performed by PARC for Arabsat), and delivering hundreds of thousands of vital telecommunication (Click here to view Arabsat's coverage areas).

Operating a growing fleet of owned satellites at the 20°East, 26°East and 30.5°East positions of the geostationary orbit, Arabsat is the only satellite operator in the MENA region offering the full spectrum of Broadcast, Telecommunications and Broadband services. This capacity will continue to expand with the launch of new satellites from 2010 to 2012, making the Arabsat satellite fleet the youngest in the region with the highest possible reliability coupled to ultimate flexibility. This translates to a now unrivalled in-orbit backup, as well as more space capacity than any other player in the region for more TV and Radio broadcasting services, professional data network solutions, telephony & IP trunking backbone connectivity, and broadband Internet access to media and entertainment companies, corporate customers or government entities.

Arabsat also maintains strategic partnerships with most of the world's leading satellite companies and VAS integrators, allowing customers to reach farther than ever and deliver content or state-of-the-art solutions to any end-viewers audience or business partner around the world.

Arabsat is committed to stay at the forefront of best-in-class satellite services in the region, continuously expanding its range of customer-oriented solutions with an unparalleled level of quality and reliability, bringing in cutting-edge technology, and providing the largest ever amount of capacity which positions Arabsat to rapidly become the HDTV and 3D portal of the ME, plus constantly expanding footprints meeting the growing and evolving needs of its customers across the Arab world.

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is an intergovernmental organisation created through an international convention agreed by a current total of 30 European Member States.

EUMETSAT's primary objective is to establish, maintain and exploit European systems of operational meteorological satellites. EUMETSAT is responsible for the launch and operation of the satellites and for delivering satellite data to end-users as well as contributing to the operational monitoring of climate and the detection of global climate changes.

The activities of EUMETSAT contribute to a global meteorological satellite observing system coordinated with other space-faring nations.

Satellite observations are an essential input to numerical weather prediction systems and also assist the human forecaster in the diagnosis of potentially hazardous weather developments. Of growing importance is the capacity of weather satellites to gather long-term measurements from space in support of climate change studies.

EUMETSAT is not part of the European Union, but became a signatory to the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters in 2012, thus providing for the global charitable use of its space assets.^[1]