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the worldwide market in order to adjust the curves of In another field, the business of maritime traffic in-
supply and demand. In this context, new requirements formation by satellite (AIS) recorded growth figures
or clients may arise which will facilitate decision-mak- thanks to the extension of the micro-satellite constella-
ing and the company will continue working towards tion. The income obtained by the company exactEarth
making the launch of a third governmental communi- (Hisdesat joint venture with COMDEV), responsible for
cations satellite in position 29º East a reality, which operating the global vessel monitoring system, was
can help extend our coverage and services in the doubled, amounting to 9,7 million dollars with a re-
business of governmental communications by satellite. cruitment level throughout the year amounting to 13,6
million dollars and achieving a market quota of close
In Earth Observation, it is necessary to make refer- to 80%. The company now provides close to 100 mil-
ence to the agreement reached with the company As- lion AIS messages a day to it’s over 50 clients across
trium GEO-Information Services (Infoterra GmbH) in all five continents, having doubled in this last year.
order to carry out a joint technological development
project, for the purposes of establishing an innova- We bring to a close, therefore, a good year for the
tive approach to constellation for radar satellites Paz, company and in 2013 we want to lay the foundations
TerraSAR-X and Tandem-X, which will result in a for the strategic future of the company, with 2020 vi-
more effective and flexible management of their sys- sion which will inevitably change the company. Our
tem capabilities. Our respective clients and partners proposition consists in having a more significant di-
will benefit from improved levels of performance and rect presence in the development of our market in the
service in relation to revisit times, reliability of service different business lines: governmental services on X-
and data acquisition functionality. band, Earth Observation and AIS.

The constellation strategy will also provide improved As part of the national industry we must be capable
redundancy and back-up for the satellites in the event of continuing to generate confidence to ensure sup-
of maintenance phases. A wide range of data-inten- port for the highly innovative technological sector
sive and time-critical applications will benefit from this through the creation of new programmes with interna-
constellation approach. For example, accurate super- tional scope, favouring the creation of qualified jobs
vision and quicker detection of surface movement ac- and investment in R+D+i.
tivities can be applied to sectors such as defence and
security, engineering and mining and maritime sur- Lastly, I would like to make special mention of the
veillance. Paz, our Observation satellite, is now in its excellent group of professionals that make up the
final phase of manufacture and testing and its launch company and who are the basic axis upon which the
into orbit, planned for the first semester of 2014, will future of the company rests. Without them, neither
open up a promising new market. past results nor the future expectations currently
opening up would have been possible. My gratitude
Within this same Earth Observation segment, Hisde- to all of them and to the members of the Board for
sat has continued to promote a close and committed their continued support.
collaboration with the Centre for Industrial Techno-
logical Development (CDTI) and the European Space Miguel Ángel Panduro Panadero
Agency (ESA) in order to monitor the Ingenio pro- Managing Director of Hisdesat
gramme for the purposes of integrating both satellites
into the National Observation Programme in the most
effective manner possible.

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