Commercial Satellite Firms See Uncertainty in Defense Market

摘要

The wars or the past decade fueled a demand for satellite communications services from the commercial industry, as the military's own spacecraft could not keep up with commanders' gargantuan needs. Business has fallen off sharply. At the height of the war, commercial suppliers filled nearly half of the military's bandwidth demand. Today, 24 percent of the Defense Department's satellite communications needs are met by commercial providers.