SatMAX Corporation has agreed to commercial purchase contract terms with Lockheed Martin Corporation for a SatMAX(r) satellite communications repeater system. The new airdock-installed satellite data communications repeater will be located at the Lockheed Martin Airdock in Akron, Ohio.

SatMAX ALPHA Portable 003 equipment will be used by the Lockheed Martin High Altitude Airship (HAA) program to test satellite-based communications and avionics. The HAA is an un-tethered, unmanned lighter-than-air vehicle that will operate above the jet stream in a geostationary position to deliver persistent station keeping as a surveillance platform, telecommunications relay, or a weather observer. The HAA also provides the Warfighter affordable, ever-present Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance and rapid communications connectivity over the entire battle space. The technology is available now and ready for integration and flight test. SatMAX 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.

With this order, Lockheed Martin continues the validation of a concept of using SatMAX repeaters for data transfer and testing of aircraft avionics. The SatMAX repeater will allow HAA engineers to avoid towing the HAA from the airdock to establish a line of sight to communications satellites in order to test satellite-based aircraft avionics systems.