MMEK Demonstration · April 28–30, 2026
Three days in Utah with the Utah Army and Air National Guard, a federal law-enforcement audience, and Operation Wolverine on the range — the first time the MMEK picture was streamed live, beyond line of sight, to viewers across the country.
By the numbers
Viewer figures from the VECTOR access log per demo day (counted by network address). Track distances from the sensor's own position data on the recorded portions of each flight.
What was demonstrated
Shotover EO/IR over the onboard Starlink to VECTOR for remote viewers and over the MPU5 mesh to the ground station at the same time — either path could fail without taking the picture down.
Day 1 the Utah Guard, Day 2 federal law enforcement, Day 3 Operation Wolverine with both aircraft flying: every day the same link, watched from a growing list of states.
TAK markers and terrain on the operator's screen beside the video, so what the crew sees is what the ground element and remote viewers see.
How it went
The AStar flew all three days out of Salt Lake City: Day 1 scenarios for the Utah Army and Air National Guard, Day 2 for a federal law-enforcement audience, and Day 3 south to the range for Operation Wolverine with both aircraft flying and the AStar's sensor as the live picture — Black Hawks on the LZ, an Apache tracked air-to-air, the ground element on the objective.
It was the proof that the browser-based picture works at scale: 105 live viewers on the Wolverine day across 19 states plus the UK and Jordan, 29 GB of video and about 32 viewer-hours in a single day, with no stream interruptions across the tour. Over the three days 225 viewers in 23 states followed along.
Footage from this flight
Split-screen on the operator display: colour EO and thermal on the same vehicle at once, with range and speed read-outs from the sensor. Day 1 for the Utah Army and Air National Guard.
A hiker-search scenario: the sensor holds a person on the trail while the moving map shows the sensor footprint on terrain — what a ground team sees on TAK at the same moment.
Day 2, federal law-enforcement audience: a motorcycle training course held from stand-off altitude, riders and cones resolvable, the picture live to remote viewers in 14 states.
The operator display with TAK markers drawn over the live video — named points on the ridge line as the sensor sweeps, the same points every TAK user holds on their map.
A steady hold on the Capitol dome from stand-off with range and altitude read-outs — gimbal stabilisation and range-finding on a fixed target.
Operation Wolverine: the sensor watches a drone deliver to the objective compound while the ground element moves — captured from the crew display.
Day 3, both aircraft flying: the training compound held on the 4K narrow sensor — vehicles, structures and personnel at the objective before the assault.
A UH-60 on the landing zone with the ground vehicle alongside, held from stand-off — the kind of picture a commander watched live on VECTOR from 19 states.
Ground element moving along the range road with vehicles staged — individual soldiers resolvable from altitude on the narrow sensor.
An AH-64 tracked air-to-air on the narrow sensor: the gimbal holds the aircraft while the background streams past.
The staging area from overhead — vehicles, tentage and personnel laid out for the exercise, one frame of the wide-area picture the range controllers had all day.
More clips in the In Action gallery.
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