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The British firm whose satellites helped track the final route of missing Malaysian Airlines airliner MH370, is to offer a free, basic tracking service to prevent other flights from disappearing. Inmarsat said today that the service would be offered to all 11,000 commercial passenger aircraft which are already equipped with Inmarsat satellite connection, comprising virtually 100 percent of the world's long haul commercial fleet. It's launch comes two months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing without a trace on March 8 with 239 passengers on board. It still has not been found despite a multi-agency, international search effort, including...

'A shot in the dark'A private British satellite company used a wave phenomenon discovered in the nineteenth century to analyse the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and determine its tragic final destination. The new findings led Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to conclude that the Boeing 777 ... crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean .... Radar pings from MH370, automatically transmitted every hour from the aircraft after the rest of its communications systems had stopped, indicated it continued flying for hours after it disappeared from its flight path from Kuala...

snip "We looked at the Doppler effect, which is the change in frequency, due to the movement of a satellite in its orbit. What that then gave us was a predicted path for the northerly route and a predicted path the southerly route," explained Chris McLaughlin, senior vice president of external affairs at Inmarsat. This information was relayed to Malaysian officials by 12 March, but Malaysia's government did not publicly acknowledge it until 15 March, according to the Wall Street Journal. Malaysia began to redirect the search effort that day, to focus on the areas the information described. However, some...

In letter to Shurat HaDin, the telecommunications giant confirms dealings with Tehran TEL AVIV, August 2, 2012 – "Inmarsat's official response to Shurat HaDin, as well as its previous statements to the media, confirms the telecommunications giant has dealings with banned Iranian oil tankers and other vessels," this according to Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center. On July 30, the London-headquartered Inmarsat officially responded to Shurat HaDin's warning via a letter authored by Rich Harris, Senior Vice President, mailed to its Tel Aviv offices. On July 25, Shurat HaDin warned Inmarsat against providing prohibited satellite communications services to Iranian...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 25, 2012 ANTI-TERROR POWERHOUSE SHURAT HADIN TARGETS INMARSAT PLC’S AIDING OF IRAN IN DEFIANCE OF UNITED STATES TREASURY NEW YORK, July 25, 2012 – Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, the organization that built its reputation on hard-fought legal battles and victories against terror sponsors, today sent a letter to worldwide mobile satellite company Inmarsat PLC, warning it against providing prohibited guidance services to Iranian oil tankers and Iranian military vessels. The warning letter stressed that Inmarsat's actions would expose the telecommunications giant to criminal prosecution and civil liability from Americans and others who suffer as...

Here is my quick synopsis/Japanese-to-English translation (a “Freepranslation”) of the report today from the Japanese news website, ZakZak, attached to the Nikkan Gendai publication in Tokyo. Title: "Saddam, Digs His Grave By Talking With Wife, Starts to Give Information" "--The U.S. was greatly assisted by a sophisticated “elint” (electronic eavesdropping) operation involving good cooperation by US, Australian, and British intelligence. The cooperative group was code named “Dream Team”. Of course, former officials of the regime who 'were turned' against Saddam were also instrumental and completed the picture just before the raid. --The Dream Team went ahead on the theory...