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| With satellites, a business can send information to locations all over the world. Courtesy Lockheed Martin |
Satellites benefit businesses in various ways. They provide an easy, flexible, and relatively inexpensive method of transmitting information from one point to another. They can distribute services to virtually anywhere on Earth and to hundreds or thousands of locations simultaneously. Satellites link the stock markets of Tokyo, New York, and London. They also help people in the agriculture, construction, transportation and energy industries make plans according to weather conditions.
Businesses from Wal-Mart to the US Postal Service use satellites. Satellites assist in inventory management, point of sale data collection, credit-card validation, and e-mail delivery. People in the maritime, aviation, government/military, emergency/humanitarian services, mining, forestry, oil & gas and heavy construction industries depend on satellite communications to and from remote areas.
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Satellites are being used to locate oil. Using specialized sensors, satellites spot oil that naturally seeps from the cracks in ocean bottom to the ocean surface. Earth Satellite Corporation found that there are over 600 different areas where oil oozes from rocks underlying the Gulf of Mexico.
Real estate developers and brokers are using satellites to locate building sites and to give prospective homeowners a birds-eye-view around the neighborhood.
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