Deere Introducing new Generation of StarFire Mobile Earth Terminals

June 6, 2016 |Satellite

As Deere plans to introduce new mobile earth terminals for its StarFire precision farming system, the GPS company is asking the FCC International Bureau approval to receive downlinks from various Inmarsat satellites. In a pair of IB filings Thursday (see here and here), Deere requested special temporary and permanent authority to operate as many as 700,000 SF6000 and SF5050 terminals in the L band with Inmarsat 3F2, 3F3, 3F4, 4F1 and 4F3.