PARIS — Astrium Services, which owns Britain’s Skynet 5 X-band military telecommunications satellites, hopes to leverage the coming launch of an X-band payload on a commercial satellite to offer the U.S. government near-global coverage in X-band, Astrium Chief Executive Eric Beranger said Sept. 10.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.