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About Hisdesat ANNUAL REPORT 2014

Norwegian Ministry of Defence, efficient and secure solutions for fo- entire network being linked via the
and, through the investee com- reign policy, security and defence, geostationary satellites SpainSat
pany Xtar LLc., to the US State De- as well as peacekeeping and disas- and Xtar-Eur. Currently more than
partment and various US govern- ter relief missions. 25 Spanish embassies and consular
mental agencies. offices in strategic countries have
Throughout 2014 we have continued access to secure communications
Hisdesat has for years provided re- as normal to provide these services
through this system.
gular and uninterrupted secure sa- via SpainSat, giving further momen-
tellite communications services to tum to the area of high strategic va- Hisdesat also provides secure com-
the Ministry of Defence, supporting lue communications. Spain thus en- munications services to Ministry of
among others all the international joys high degrees of autonomy and Interior projects related to border
missions of the Spanish Armed For- capacity for response, in line with the surveillance, security operations
ces. These services have also been current needs of our country. and the prevention of illegal immi-
extended to other government or- gration. In addition, communication
ganizations like the Ministry of Fo- The quality of the service provided services are provided to the CSIC
reign Affairs, the Ministry of Interior, by Hisdesat to the Ministry of De- for its oceanographic research ves-
fence has enabled us to expand our
and the CSIC, thereby making His- sel Hesperides.
desat a leading operator in national scope of operations nationwide. In
2007 an agreement was signed bet- The compatibility of existing X-band
security programmes, defence and
intelligence. ween the Ministries of Defence and terminals allows Hisdesat to do
Foreign Affairs for the development without additional infrastructure.
New technological advances incor- of a secure communications system The marketing of the system and its
porated into the SpainSat satellite for State programmes outside the international expansion have been
guarantee interference-free com- country. The project makes use of facilitated by the ability of providing
munications, opening up a wide two central hubs located at the Mi- secure communications services at
range of possibilities to offer more nistry of Foreign Affairs, with the low cost.

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