During a panel discussion at the recent Satellite 2010 conference near Washington, U.S. government and industry officials bemoaned missed opportunities for the government to acquire space capabilities at bargain prices by piggybacking on private-sector investments. Joseph Rouge, director of the U.S. National Security Space Office, noted that of 18 eligible commercial communications satellites ordered in the last two years, only one is slated to host a government-owned payload. "We should have been on all 18 satellites," he said.
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