SATCON Engineering, being the project and management company of the LSC satellite system, considers to upgrade the platform by a system called "Global Monitoring for Environment and Security" (GMES). The opto-electronic remote sensing component (see graphic) is a kind of "flying eye" watching the earth day and night. The real-time data gathered will be provided for services such as

• Ecological Monitoring
• Geo-information services
• National Security
• Exploration and exploitation of natural resources
• Environmental management
• Agruculture and forestry
• Infrastructure

LEO SAT COURIER is without competition due to its concentration, constellation and the technical-technological solutions chosen. It will open-up lucrative markets both in commercial and strategic branches. Latest market assumptions by LORAL forecast annual revenues of some Euro 250 million with tending to increase.
The LSC network under realization is the world‘s greatest constellation of satellites. Combining global mobile telecommunication and GMES LSC leads to synergies of unique characteristics.
The managment plans to enter into a long-term R&D cooperation with leading companies of the space, aviation and high-tech industries as well as of universities and academies.