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Performing at full capacity

3.3 Operations

For the ninth consecutive year, HIS- role of supervising the ground seg-
DESAT has consolidated its position ment development for the INGENIO
as a leading satellite operator, main- observation satellite, being involved
taining its communications system in the critical design review (CDR)
formed by geostationary satellites both at system and subsystem level
SPAINSAT and XTAR-EUR in orbit over the past year.
and fully operational.
The sum of all these activities, en-
In parallel, work has continued on ope- compassing both observation and
rational preparations for PAZ, the low communication, positions HISDES-
orbit radar observation satellite whose AT as the only national player, and
mission and operation one of only a handful global multi-
In the course of is the responsibility of mission satellite operators - be that
the preparation for HISDESAT. Specifically, in low or geostationary orbits.
the orbital constellation
operation of the PAZ design which includes The SPAINSAT satellite has this
satellite, the design PAZ and the German year completed more than eight
and development of satellites TerraSar and years of operation in orbit, and
continues with all subsystems fu-
Tandem-X has been
critical elements of the completed. lly functional and all redundant
Ground Segment have At the same time we elements available.
been monitored have maintained our Over the last year more than 200

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