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I-6 F2, which rocketed off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, billed as the most sophisticated commercial communications satellite ever

| Posted: Feb. 24, 2023, 5:41 p.m. | Updated: 18 minutes ago | 9 Min Read

"I remember a few years ago, we went into the College of the North Atlantic and we did a session. We were doing the usual, here's Inmarsat or whatever, and we said, 'Well, we're going to show you a video clip here of our recent launch.' It was like all of a sudden, the entire room just shifted. It was like, 'Wow. OK.

The Newfoundland contingent handles a variety of tasks within the company. There are members of Inmarsat's global finance team in Mount Pearl, billing, the product group, network operations, the chief technology officer group, the human resources team for North America and IT specialists. That staff has educational backgrounds in business, computer science and engineering.

Tim Brown, senior director of cloud and operations, is from Newfoundland and is always surprised by the fact a lot of people are unaware of Inmarsat's presence in the province. This massive Airbus Beluga plane departed from Toulouse, France, and stopped in St. John's to refuel Jan. 25, carrying Inmarsat's I-6 F2 satellite. — Joe Gibbons/The TelegramThe design of a satellite like I-6 F2 is primarily driven by Inmarsat's CTO group with the engagement of a third party, which was Airbus in this instance. An Airbus Beluga plane departed from France carrying the I-6 F2 and made a refuelling stop in St. John's on its way to Florida.

Inmarsat's Mount Pearl office has more than 100 employees and is the company's largest regional office in the world. — Andrew Robinson/The Telegram - Andrew Robinson

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