Past and recent negative events in the world – the power supply failure in the USA, disasters in the worldwide production and transportation of oil, destructive forest fires in the USA, Canada, Russia and Europe, the terrible flooding in Japan, Korea and Vietnam, the catastrophic earthquakes in Iran and Turkey, the rampant famine in Africa, war in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Libanon and the devastating underwater earthquake with tsunamis in the Pacific and Indian Ocean – challenge all of us, including SATCON Engineering as Project and Management Company, to intensify our efforts to provide an, as far as possible, non-earth-based global communication system delivering mobile services even in the event of a crisis.

As a rule, terrible natural disasters also inflict destruction on the infrastructure, including the earth-based telephone and data networks, of those regions affected, with the result that effective crisis management and critical aid efforts become near on impossible using conventional means of information transfer.
LEO SAT COURIER’s implementation represents the provision to mankind of a world-encompassing satellite network, which can be used for prevention, for the transmission of warnings and in the event of a disaster without restriction at any time and in any location.
The highest priority is given to the rapid, target-oriented distribution of warnings from meteorological centers into the crisis areas.
An LSC-based emergency call system being an integral part, for example, of a mobile telephone will have the capability of giving differentiated warnings to the user at risk in a fraction of seconds.
The business idea is to provide an Alarm-Minipager for everyone at a symbolic price which functions constantly and in any location and is accessible e.g. to the fashionable holiday-maker to clip onto his swimming trunks, the skier to his ski suit and the businessman to fix to his lapel.
The early warning system now planned for the Indian Ocean can in particular benefit from the implementation of LEO SAT COURIER.

The press release with the title “Transformation in the Telecommunications Market” shows LSC’s geopolitical significance in providing solutions to those issues particularly relevant to our time.