Commercial Satellite for Spain's Military Needs Awaits Launch

摘要

The launch of the Spainsat military telecommunications satellite will add Spain to the small group of governments that want the private sector to handle the provision of satellite telecommunications to military forces. Britain has gone the outsourcing route with its Skynet satellite system, with a privately owned consortium managing current and future satellite assets for a fixed annual fee. The German government appears about to select EADS Space to operate a two-satellite system that would be partly government-owned, and partly privately owned.