Thursday 27 December 2012

SKYNET 5 Gets Another Satellite – the Royal Navy is of course a big user of satellite technology and thus news that the MoD now has a fourth satellite of the SKYNET  5 Project all put into space 2007 under a £4bn Private Finance Initiative programme with Astrium, a subsidiary of EADS.    The new satellite was launched into space from French Guiana in South America.     The latest satellite will provide extra lines of communication for troops deployed in Afghanistan and other parts of the world, including the Falklands, Cyprus and on ships at sea.

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