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Sea Japan: Cobham in first compact Ku-band antenna installations for JMASea Japan: Cobham in first compact Ku-band antenna installations for JMA

Satellite communications equipment provider Cobham is growing its presence in the Japanese market and has installed its first Sailor 600 VSAT Ku antennas on two Japan Meteorological Agency vessels.

Marcus Hand, Editor

April 13, 2018

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It is the first installation of the super-light, compact 60cm terminal that Cobham has done in Japan. The antennas were installed on the meteorological vessels R/V Ryofu Maru and R/V Keifu Maru

“This is new hardware for us, and particularly new for Japan,” Stephan Romer Jorgensen, regional sales director – APAC for Cobham, told Seatrade Maritime News at Sea Japan 2018. “They were two vessels that had existing FleetBroadband on board and they were the first ones in Japan to adopt our small Ku band antennas. It’s a size that allows it to go on the majority of ships.

Explaining how Cobham is able to offer of the required level of performance on a small antenna he said: “Antennas are getting smaller because of new satellite technology. Now you have multitude of overlapping small beams which makes the size of the antenna less critical because you will always be near the centre of beam.

“That is what both the Inmarsat Global Xpress (GX) and our Sailor 600 Ku takes advantage of.”

Jorgensen said they were also seeing a strong interest from the Japanese market for equipment for Inmarsat’s GX Ka-band service. “We have our antennas type-approved for Japan-flagged vessels.”

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Marcus Hand

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Marcus Hand is the editor of Seatrade Maritime News and a dedicated maritime journalist with over two decades of experience covering the shipping industry in Asia.

Marcus is also an experienced industry commentator and has chaired many conferences and round tables. Before joining Seatrade at the beginning of 2010, Marcus worked for the shipping industry journal Lloyd's List for a decade and before that the Singapore Business Times covering shipping and aviation.

In November 2022, Marcus was announced as a member of the Board of Advisors to the Singapore Journal of Maritime Talent and Technology (SJMTT) to help bring together thought leadership around the key areas of talent and technology.

Marcus is the founder of the Seatrade Maritime Podcast that delivers commentary, opinions and conversations on shipping's most important topics.

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