XTAR
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XTAR LLC is a satellite communications company, and is a joint venture between Loral Space & Communications, which owns 56 percent, and HISDESAT, which owns 44 percent. It is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, but has offices in Madrid, Spain and Palo Alto, California.
XTAR specializes in providing customized X-band communications services exclusively to U.S. and Allied governments worldwide, in support of military, diplomatic and security communications requirements.
XTAR owns and operates the XTAR-EUR satellite, located at 29 degrees East longitude, and offers additional X-band capacity on XTAR-LANT, a payload on HISDESAT's SPAINSAT satellite located at 30 degrees West longitude. Together, these unique X-band satellites represent the emergence of a new offering in government communications services.
The XTAR satellites were designed and built by private financing.
XTAR shares support resources with Loral Skynet, allowing each to cross-market satellite capacity and services to governments around the world. Loral Skynet Government Services and Network Operations Center is located in Rockville, Maryland.
On October 5, 2007 Loral Space & Communications Inc. and the Public Pension Investment Board of Canada received the final regulatory approval necessary to complete the acquisition of Telesat from BCE Inc. for CAD $3.25 billion. The acquisition closed on October 31, 2007, with Loral owning 64 percent of Telesat.
At the same time, Telesat Canada merged with Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications. This resulted in the transfer of all of the assets of Loral Skynet to Telesat.
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On 05 Nov 2007, XTAR announced that it had received a new contract from the US General Services Administration. The contract has an unlimited spending ceiling and may be used by any federal, state or local agency to acquire XTAR's high-powered X-band bandwidth and services.
