Sarkozy: Satellite Operators Should Support European Launch Sector

摘要

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is proposing that telecommunications satellite operators help support Europe's government-sponsored space infrastructure through "innovative financing" of facilities that are unprofitable but indispensable to the health of the satellite telecommunications sector.rn"We create added value for the downstream sector," Sarkozy said of government investment in launch vehicles such as Europe's Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket. "I am thinking particularly of telecommunications.