Syracuse 3A Fully Subscribed Only Six Months After Launch

摘要

France's Syracuse 3A military telecommunications satellite has been filled to capacity six months after its launch as demand from NATO, German and Belgian authorities was added to the share reserved for French defense forces. An identical satellite, Syracuse 3B, is scheduled for launch in August aboard an Ariane 5 rocket that also will carry Tokyo-based JSAT Corp.'sJCSAT-10 commercial telecommunications satellite. The Syracuse 3 program — two satellites plus an elaborate ground network to link deployed land and naval forces to each other and to central command — represents a break from 20 years of French military satellite communications practice.