SatMAX Completes Installation for U. S. Navy

May 06, 2010

SatMax Corp.has completed installation of a rack-mounted satellite communications repeater system for the U. S. Navy. The SatMAX repeater system has been installed at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) in Patuxent River, MD.

The SatMAX equipment will be used at NAWC to test satellite-based communications and avionics. With this order, the Navy has expanded the usage of SatMAX repeaters from voice communications over handheld satellite telephones to data transfer and testing of aircraft avionics. The SatMAX repeater allows aircraft maintenance teams to discontinue towing aircraft from hangars to establish a line of sight to communications satellites in order to test satellite-based aircraft avionics systems. The Navy intends to use the NAWC installation as a prototype bringing cost reducing, patented SatMAX technology to advanced aircraft maintenance strategies.

SatMAX(R) repeater technology enables satellite communications users to quickly and easily make fully wireless voice and data communications from any non-line-of-sight location. Historically limited by the requirement for satellite communications to have line-of-sight access to orbiting satellites, with SatMAX users now have the ability to access dependable and uninterrupted wireless satellite communications.