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CORPORATE STRUCTURE
Hisdesat has entered into various Hisdesat’s creation of and participa-
partnerships with other companies tion in this company is a reflection
and international agencies in an of the growing activity being under-
effort to offer its services to the ever taken in the area of Earth Observa-
expanding global market. tion, under the National Earth Ob-
servation by Satellite Programme
Firstly, a joint venture was set up with (PNOT).
the American company Loral Space
& Communications in the United Sta- In addition, Hisdesat holds 27% of
tes, creating Xtar LLC with the aim of the Canadian company exactEarth,
provi-ding satellite communications dedicated to providing AIS satellite
services.
services to government agencies
through its network of communica-
tions satellites. Hisdesat holds a 44%
stake in this company.
It also owns 20% of the share capital
of Infoterra Servicios de Geoinforma-
ción (now Airbus DS Geo), whose ob-
jective is to carry out activities rela-
ted to remote sensing services, space
imagery and data acquisition, in addi-
tion to the distribution of high-reso-
lution satellite data and the develop-
ment of geoinformation services and
applications.
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