LeoSat network composition. Photo: LeoSat.

LeoSat Enterprises, which is launching a constellation of up to 108 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communications satellites, has entered into a strategic agreement with CopaSat, a provider of secure satellite voice and broadband data solutions to remote locations, to market LeoSat’s future High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) data network.

The military and government sector relies on a number of key attributes when it comes to communications networks. Mission-critical operations require advanced sensor capabilities, bandwidth-intensive applications and near real-time command and control. The proximity LEO satellites have to the Earth provides the lower latencies and better data rates that are required to support these capabilities, according to LeoSat. With LeoSat’s new architecture using inter-satellite laser links, customers will benefit from an optical backbone in space with fiber-like and full duplex gigabit per second data delivery, according to the company. LeoSat also offers security as the data is encrypted from end-to-end across one single network, with no terrestrial touch points. For military or civil government customers these attributes bring the advantages of increased precision, simplified infrastructure and therefore higher success rates for their missions, according to LeoSat.

“In response to the U.S. government’s increasing requirements for high-speed data connectivity worldwide, requiring LEO satellite solutions — as confirmed by the U.S. Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) recent connectivity requirements — we are excited to work with LeoSat,” said Scott Bohnsack, vice president of business development at CopaSat.