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Luxembourg-based business satellite administrator is apparently wanting to structure a joint-wander with the Luxembourg government and to make an armada of military and legislative satellites, temporarily called 'Govsat'. 


The news, reported by expert exchange mag Space News, says the first leg of the plan is available on the promising new Astra 2g, because of be propelled on November 28th. 

Astra 2g will be convey Ku and Ka-band transponders, additionally a X-band transponder. X-band is utilized by the military and government offices. The dispatch date is urgent on the grounds that the X-band orbital opening, enrolled with Luxembourg powers, terminates in January 2015. Astra 2g, once propelled, would use three months at an unspecified orbital position which would be sufficient to 'bring into utilize' the space and in this way consent to ITU standards. The satellite would then be floated to its "working" position at 28.2 degrees East. 

Space News says that Luxembourg's Defense Minister, Etienne Schneider, in a Nov 4 report presented the defense that Astra 2g's X-band payload would help satisfy Luxembourg's commitments to NATO. 

The proposal is that the SES Board of Directors will settle on December fourth whether to continue with the arrangement, despite the fact that the initially committed "Govsat" is not prone to be set up until 2017.