Page 10 - hisdeSAT annual report 2016

PRESENTATION

OF THE

2 016 FISCAL YEAR

ANNU AL REPOR T 2016 has been a complex year for the city of our Armed Forces operations and

company, during which some important
deployments in various geopolitical sce-
narios, and Hisdesat continues to respond
future challenges needed to be faced.
Important decisions that were necessary
to these needs by promoting new develo-
for resolving the start of operations of the
pments through R&D investment.
the signing of a 2017 launch contract with
receive the support of the Spanish Minis-
• PAZ satellite have been taken, leading to In this context, Hisdesat has continued to
the US company Space X. Although it is try of Defence and the Armed Forces, as
HISDE S AT the uncertainties around the PAZ project, the main users of and ambassadors for our
good news that we were able to resolve
system both nationally and internationally,
it is also true that this has had a very sig-
thereby expanding our geographical scope
nificant impact on our financial results for
the year, a challenge that we were able to of action. True to our international voca-
deal with thanks to the financial and cor- tion, we are also supporting the Spanish
porate strength of the company. Ministry of Defence in its tireless efforts re-
10 lated to the new NATO capability package
During this year, the company has worked tender, planned for the end of this decade.
intensively on the definition of a new go- At the same time, our commitment to the
vernment satellite communications pro- European GOVSATCOM initiative, led by
gramme, in order to assure continuity of the Spanish Ministry of Defence, has been
service beyond 2021 and the end of the absolute and we continue working towards
useful life of the current generation of establishing agreements with allied and
satellites. Xtar-Eur and SpainSAT, our two friendly countries that could potentially be
communications satellites, continue to incorporated into our system. On a similar
operate optimally and are providing the note, I would like to highlight two important
secure communications services required studies led by Hisdesat: firstly the feasibili-
by our national and international clients. In ty study of the GOVSATCOM initiative ma-
accordance with the requirements of the naged by the European Defence Agency
General Staff of Defence and the General (EDA), and secondly the “Potential Uses
Directorate of Armaments and Materiel, of High Capacity Satellite Systems” study
the new programme is designed for mis- commissioned by NATO.
sions with X, Ka and UHF band capabilities
and integrates innovative new generation In terms of Earth Observation, we were
elements that will put us at the technolo- not able to carry out the planned launch
gical and operational level of other impor- of the PAZ satellite due to factors beyond
tant countries and aerospace operators. our control. To put an end to these accu-
Military communications are an essential mulated delays, the company decided to
part of the Command and Control capa- hire the US company SpaceX to put our