Holger Lueschow EDA's, satellite communications program manager (left) and Hermann Ludwig Moeller, head of ESA’s Institutional and European Programmes Office (center), speak at Govaatcom for European Defence and Security 2016.

The European Govsatcom demonstration project is on schedule to start providing secure satellite communications services to governmental users next summer, according to Holger Lueschow, satellite communications program manager at the European Defence Agency (EDA).

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