LES-Raisting.deLES-Raisting.deShips, airplanes and land mobiles can use the Inmarsat satellites for telephone calls, e-mail, telex, fax, and SMS. Inmarsat is a worldwide organisation running geostationary satellites in an orbit 36,000 km high. They cover the earth surface except the poles in four areas: Atlantic ocean east and west, Indian ocean and Pacific.
Raisting
is a small town at the southern end of the Ammersee lake in Bavaria, Germany.
Until 2001 the German Telekom ran there an Inmarsat Land Earth Station (LES) for
Atlantic east and Indian ocean. Then these services have been transferred to the
France Telecom LES Aussaguel near Toulouse, which in turn has been sold to Apax
Partners France in November 2006; the new company name is
Vizada.
Deutsche
Telekom sold the remaining facilities in Raisting to EMC in January 2006. The
Internet domain LES-Raisting.de is still in operation as a skyfile.com
alias for the SkyFile
satellite e-mail software developed by
Shamrock.
The first facilities of the land earth station in Raisting were built back in 1963. The historical and famous antenna 1 with its 25 m diameter is protected by an air-inflated plastic radome with a diameter of 48 m. It was built for the Intelsat-1 satellite (Early Bird) in 1964 and is the fifth-oldest satellite antenna in the world, but it is no longer in use today. 1967 a second antenna was built in Raisting, 1972 a third one for the television coverage of the Olympic Games in Munich. Later 18 antennas were in Raisting, five of them as large as 25 to 32 m in diameter.
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