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In recent years, there has been growing awareness of using mobile phones to locate population movements during a disaster. The basic concept was first tested during the Haiti Earthquake to locate population whereabouts by analysing 282 million mobile phone calls to masts from 2.8 million individual phones. HYDRA is an evolutionary concept of the technique used in Haiti, to locate user position by triangulating mobile phone signals with base stations deployed locally in a disaster zone.

LYNX builds on a previously completed Feasibility Study for Innovation in Space project KASM (“KA Satcom on the Move”), and ESA IAP project on civil protection and aims to develop a ruggedized and light-weight portable Ka-Band satcom terminal (lacking in the curent market), fitted and operable in a compact suitcase for nomadic use in civilian markets.