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5.3 Industrial returns The participation of national

industry in the direct and indirect returns of the National
Programme of Governmental Communications by satellite has been

and is very significant.

During this financial year, for the first time the total Given that the communications systems uses a non-
amount of direct and indirect returns have exceeded European satellite for the first time, Spanish compa-
the programme’s commitments, and it has therefore nies participating in the SpainSat programme have
been agreed by the Working Group for the manage- had to adapt to new and different criteria of competi-
ment of the SpainSat returns programme to provi- tiveness. This has meant that almost the entirety of
sionally close the programme, pending implementa- the equipment made and charged to the programme’s
tion of proposals and that potential changes do not direct and indirect returns have been classified as
affect the overall commitments. new developments, which have added technological
and competitive capabilities to the Spanish aerospace
industry.
Total commitment: 88.7 M$

Fulfilled The direct returns

Direct Returns 21,238 M$ associated with the satellite

67,907 M$ manufacturing programme
Indirect Returns
(recorded)
have exceeded 21,2 million

Total: 89,145 M$ dollars

Pending: 0.0 M$
The direct returns associated with the satellite manu-
facturing programme have exceeded 21,2 million
dollars. The majority are equipment and components
associated with communications payloads on military
X and Ka bands. The most significant developments
were:

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