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US military's demand for satellites skyrockets
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| 18 07 July 2006 |
By Peter Buxbaum JDW Special Correspondent
Washington, DC
Additional reporting Tony Skinner JDW Staff Reporter
London
The US military will fuel a quadrupling of commercial satellite service revenues over a 10-year period, according to a recently released market survey report.
The study, by NSR, a consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, projected that global annual government and military purchases of commercial satellite bandwidth will surge from USD1 billion in 2003 to USD4.8 billion in 2012.
"Although the military wants to be independent of commercial assets and launch proprietary systems, its ever-increasing bandwidth requirements necessitate the incorporation of commercial satellite assets, "said Jose del Rosario, senior analyst at NSR. "The military can't launch satellites fast enough to address its needs."
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