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Thuraya Satellite

Thuraya service area - Australia now available

Thuraya Gateway

Thuraya was established in April 1997 in UAE, as a private joint stock company. The shareholders of Thuraya are twenty one prominent national telecommunications operators and investment houses. Thuraya integrates satellite, GSM and GPS all in one handset. Each handset offers, voice, data, facsimile, messaging and GPS. The Thuraya-1 satellite was successfully launched on board a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket from the equator in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on 21st October 2000. Thuraya launched its commercial services in the year 2001. Thuraya’s second satellite, Thuraya-2 was launched on the 10th of June 2003. 

A third satellite built by Boeing Satellite Systems has now been launched and is operational into Australia from September 2008.

The satellite is positioned in Geosynchronous Orbit, 35,786 km (22,236 miles) above the Earth, at 98.5 degrees East Longitude.

Thuraya-3 has a designed lifetime of 12 years,

Thuraya GmPRS (Geo mobile Packet Radio Service) is the first mobile satellite service to provide an always-on internet connection. 

GmPRS is available in 2009. It will allow users to have internet access, send and receive emails, download content and share files (FTP).

Thuraya service is available now. Get ready for GmPRS now.  

To find where the Thuraya geosynchronous satellite is from your address.

Click on this link, then enter your address and select 98.5 degrees East, Thuraya.

Check azimuth and elevation of the satellite from your location if you need to.

Zoom out to see the satellite position on the equator.

How to find the satellites from your address - click here

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