Illustration
Keep radios and drones linked over hills and buildings.
A relay radio above the terrain keeps a site's drones, patrols and responders in contact.
How it works
Radios need line of sight, and hills and buildings break it. From above, links get shorter and more direct, and a short, strong link is harder to drown out. No radio is jam-proof, so we publish every link result with the interference it was measured under.
Carries
- Mesh radio
- Drone control and video
- Fibre to ground
- Telemetry
Where it stands
In development. Offered with early warning and on the test range.
What it does
- 01
Mesh radio
Joins the site's network and routes around a node that is down.
- 02
Drone links
Control and video for the site's own drones, beyond the terrain.
- 03
Fibre to ground
Traffic reaches the operations room by cable.
- 04
Telemetry
Keeps flight-test data flowing beyond ground antennas.
Limits
What it cannot do, so a site knows what to plan around.
- Every radio needs spectrum approval at each site.
- Long missions need power up the tether.
Before we sell it
What we will measure and show first.
- Link uptime into terrain that blocks ground radios
- Results under stated interference
Questions
What is an aerostat relay?
A radio relay lifted by a tethered aerostat. From above, it links radios that cannot see each other on the ground, such as a patrol in a valley and an operations room behind a ridge.
Is an elevated relay jam-proof?
No radio is. Shorter, stronger links are harder to jam, and we publish each result with the interference it was measured under.
Losing links behind terrain?
Tell us about the site or the test. We will tell you what we can do, and when.