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AB OUT HISDE S AT

A joint venture has also
been established in Canada
between COMDEV and His-
CORPORATE STRUCTURE desat, with the aim of pro-
viding services based on the
Hisdesat has entered into various partnerships with other companies and interna- AIS satellite maritime traffic
tional agencies in an effort to offer its services to an ever expanding global market. information system through
the Canadian company
Firstly, it set up a joint venture with the American company Loral Space & Com- exactEarth. Hisdesat holds
munications in the United States, creating Xtar LLC with the aim of providing 27% of this entity.
satellite communications services to government agencies through its network
of communications satellites. Hisdesat holds a 44% stake in this company. In December 2007, Infote-
rra Servicios de Geoinfor-
In December 2007, Infoterra Servicios de Geoinformación was created with the mación was created with
aim of carrying out activities related to remote sensing services, space imagery the aim of carrying out ac-
and data acquisi-tion, as well as the distribution of high-resolution satellite data tivities related to remote
and the development of geo-information applications and services. Hisdesat sensing services, space ima-
holds 20% of the share capital, the other shareholders being Astrium SAS with gery and data acquisi-tion,
60% and the Instituto Cartográfico de Cataluña with 20%.
as well as the distribution
The creation of and participation in this company by Hisdesat is a reflection of of high-resolution satellite
the growing activity being undertaken in the area of Earth Observation, under data and the development
the National Earth Observation by Satellite Programme (PNOT). of geo-information applica-
tions and services. Hisdesat
holds 20% of the share ca-
pital.

Collaboration agreement
with the Norwegian Armed
Forces for the development
of the HisNorSat communi-
cations satellite. Hisdesat’s
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has invested 56% of the to-
tal capital.

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