Sulmara on Offshore Survey Job at Bayou Bend CCS Scheme in Texas
the landfall to the future offshore platform locations, which has the potential to reduce emissions from regional industrial facilities by safely storing carbon dioxide underground.Sulmara utilised an electric WAM-V 16 USV for the offshore data acquisition. The collaborative project also utilized the SpaceX-backed Starlink satellite system to ensure strong communications between the shore and the USV. “The quality of the data gathered is some of the best we’ve seen from a USV. That quality of information, as well as the operability of the equipment and relationship that has been developed
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like conductivity, temperature and depth profilers.Throughout my Navy career, I've been able to see the advance of those technologies moving more into uncrewed systems.Where are we today regarding subsea Exploration?What we're seeing now in the marine industry to me is the equivalent of what SpaceX is doing for NASA. We have companies that are making great advances with autonomy. Most of the ocean has not even been monitored, about 90% of the ocean volume has never even been explored, and about 75% of the seafloor of the world has never been mapped to modern standards. We know more about the
TDI-Brooks Installs Starlink on Its Research Vessels
, “We are enthusiastic to add this technology to our fleet. We can get usable speeds anywhere our vessels operate at a reasonably inexpensive price. We can now support and communicate with our marine crew, technical crew and clients in the field in an exceptional way.”Starlink, a division of SpaceX, has been entering into new mobility applications that use satellite connectivity services, including maritime. There is no data cap on capacity, and users will likely get download speed rates between 60-150 Mbps. Maximum peak speeds are stated at 350 Mbps. Upload speed is stated to be around 10-20Mbps
Marlink Adds SpaceX's Starlink to its Services
Marlink has added SpaceX’s Starlink service to its offerings, a move aimed at strengthening its connectivity solutions portfolio.Marlink and OmniAccess will leverage Starlink – a high-speed, low-latency broadband internet service enabled by a constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit – to complement its portfolio of smart network solutions and services globally. Under the agreement, Marlink and OmniAccess will act as global “authorized Starlink integrators” for maritime and enterprise customers.Marlink’s integration of Starlink with existing VSAT, LTE (4G/5G)
New InmarsatSatellite Reaches Geostationary Orbit, Testing Begins
Ground stations at Perth and Merredin in Western Australia will support I-6 F1 service.The satellite will soon be followed by its ‘identical twin’, I-6 F2, which has just completed testing at Airbus Defence and Space facilities in Toulouse, France. It is due to be launched in Q1 2023 by SpaceX.“The I-6 satellites will extend Inmarsat’s global leadership in L-band services through ELERA to the 2040s, as well as enhance further our Global Xpress Ka-band network capacity in emerging hotspots," said Peter Hadinger, CTO, Inmarsat. "Offering greater bandwidth and coverage
SpaceX, ABS Ink JDP on Remotely Controlled Rocket Recovery Droneships
SpaceX and ABS signed a joint development project (JDP) to review the remotely controlled functions of autonomous rocket recovery droneships used for booster rocket recovery at sea.The rocket recovery droneships are modified to include an expanded deck to increase the size of the landing platform, four thruster engines for propulsion and to hold on station, and blast shielding to protect electrical and engine equipment on deck. The droneships are entirely unmanned during landings, with a robot deployed on board to secure the rocket booster to the droneship before the vessel returns to port.
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a “full service” ocean survey offering, using “fleets” of its own man-portable AUV platform and Mosaic, a survey cloud-based (subscription-based) data platform – to solve data gathering and processing/use problems.The firm, founded in 2019 by CEO Anthony DiMare and former SpaceX and submarine engineer CTO Charles Chiau. Before co-founding Bedrock, DiMare co-founded Nautilus Labs, a technology company focused on maritime transportation. Before that he was a mechanical engineer at various tech start-up companies.Bedrock, which says it’s offering technology that can speed
Bedrock Launches Fully Electric Submarine Ocean Exploration & Survey Platform
autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and Mosaic, a universal survey cloud-based, data platform for managing, accessing, and sharing any marine survey data — from any ongoing or historical survey — which is now open for beta signups.Anthony DiMare, CEO (right) and co-founder, and former SpaceX and Submarine engineer Charles Chiau, CTO (left) and co-founder, started Bedrock to accelerate the rate and scale humans can map, understand, and use the ocean. Photo courtesy BedrockThe full package, according to the founders, promises to speed up the collection of ocean data by a factor of 10.The
Bedrock Scores $8M in Funding to Fast Track Ocean Data Initiatives
of Bedrock, and Charles Chiau, CTO, have almost three decades of experience at the intersection of maritime and technology. DiMare previously founded Nautilus Labs, a maritime technology company aiming to advance the efficiency of ocean commerce through artificial intelligence.Chiau was previously at SpaceX where he helped design the avionics systems for Crew Dragon. He also was a system engineer at Reliable Robotics working on their autonomous aviation system, and was the CTO of DeepFlight where he developed manned submersibles.While opportunities abound throughout the sector, at the outset Bedrock
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