The UK mobile satellite provider Inmarsat is seeking to increase its civil UAV sector footprint having established a set of five new partnerships with drone operators to support BVLOS operations.
Each of the collaborations use the Cobham manufactured aviator UAV 200 SATCOM terminal, with Inmarsat acting as a partner of the solution and operators benefiting from an ability of the system to send data at 200kb/s.
The five recent partnerships initially started in February comprise of operators: Silent Falcon, Robot Aviation, Flylogix, A-techSYN and Alpha Unmanned Systems.
The partners' missions for each relate to wildfire aerial mapping, SAR, offshore inspections,