A provider of secure, global, mission-critical telecommunications to the US public sector, Inmarsat Government announced that its new L-band Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (LAISR) service has completed successful customer airborne testing and will be available for US government customers by June 2015. The LAISR service will meet the high-speed, beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) connectivity requirements of airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (AISR) missions across the globe. Additionally it will provide guaranteed L-band data transmission rates up to 10Mbps.
Potential government customer applications for LAISR include: electro-optical and infrared; real-time high-definition video streaming; laser range finder and designator transmission; support for signals intelligence applications and synthetic aperture radar applications; unmanned aerial systems; and backup command and control.
