About
SatCom Scientific, Inc. (SSI) is a Florida corporation initially organized as RF Scientific, Inc. (RFS) in 1983 to provide products and services to the growing satellite communications and broadcast television sectors. A name change was implemented in 2007 to better reflect the broadening activities of the Company in satellite communications. These activities consist primarily of the design, manufacture, installation, and maintenance of both fixed and mobile satellite transmission ground facilities as well as the manufacture of mobile production facilities, ENG vans, and other special-purpose vehicles. SSI is one of the longest-operating satellite communication companies in the US, engaging in an increasingly diverse customer base and widening geographic area over the past twenty years, including the continental United States and Hawaii, Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
It would be safe to say that anyone in the United States watching a television set during the past few years has no doubt seen programming delivered by a network or a transmission system implemented by SSI. The company provided the first satellite uplink system for what is now the CNN Network. It has built or upgraded facilities for Turner Broadcasting, CBS News, PTL, NBC and many others, as well as being involved in the early planning and implementation stages of major efforts such as Home Shopping Network, QVC Network, the Country Music Television Network, the Christian Television Network, and others.
SatCom Scientific had its beginnings as an operations company, uplinking broadcasters using its own fleet of vehicles. The company relayed to the public the Democratic and Republican conventions, the Presidential campaigns, the Olympics, the Super Bowl, World Cup Soccer from Mexico City, the Pope’s visit, and ALL space shuttle launches throughout the 1984-1994 decade. For several months, SSI transmitted SHOWTIME, the MOVIE CHANNEL, and NICKELODEON while Viacom was completing its facility changes. The company is no longer operating its own vehicles, but our units continue to transmit major news and entertainment events throughout the United States and the world.
The Company now concentrates exclusively on building systems for other operators and broadcasters, but the field experience of the early years of the Company has been invaluable to the current work of the design and construction of these vehicles: SSI is the only mobile satellite builder in the world that has also operated its own trucks, and this experience has contributed greatly to the efficiency, economy, and durability of the company’s products. Although the company has been involved in all stages of large-aperture fixed earth stations from initial design and acquisition phases through final testing and acceptance, it is best known for its production of mobile units. SSI is one of the few companies in the United States engaged in the design, fabrication, and integration of mobile satellite units, and only one of a handful of companies to date which has delivered non-military, commercial units which operate in multiple transmission bands.