Vessels in deepsea areas of the Pacific were briefly unable to use Inmarsat satellite communication to send and receive distress signals, navigational warnings, man-overboard alerts or weather warnings this week.
Inmarsat’s I-4 F1 satellite, which provides L-band services in East Asia and the Pacific, experienced a hardware failure that began on Sunday and was resolved on Tuesday.
Services provided by the satellite were fully recovered within hours.
