...shipshape for the fall drilling season. Pipes and wiring spread around the decks. A technician worked on a satellite communications dish. Notes written on walls like "fire extinguisher here" showed items still to be done. In the galley...

...Soldotna. The list of construction projects Chuck worked on during his career includes the state's first satellite communications station in Talkeetna, the JC Penney's parking garage, the Sheraton, Holiday Inn and Westmark Hotels in...

...situation to be normal with an estimated time of arrival in 27 minutes Monday evening. Following that transmission, satellite communication was lost, according to a press release from the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. As standard...

...traveled the seas at the speed of sail. Now, crews and owners are in continuous contact thanks to radio and satellite communication. So it's a stretch for Exxon to claim the crew of the Exxon Valdez was beyond its control when the tanker...

...controllers. The Alaskan National Air Space Interfacility Communications System is the FAA's first major satellite communications system in the United States. The unwieldy name is often shortened to ANICS. Before ANICS, the FAA leased...

...left on the wrong side of the Digital Divide. The reason for my confidence can be summarized in two words: satellite communications. The satellite industry has a strong track record of serving rural America, not with promises but with programming...