As Defense Department budgets continue to shrink, the importance of complementary government and commercial satellite systems will increase, according to a Boeing [BA] space executive. “How can commercial systems support government missions and how can government missions support commercial systems,” Steve O’Neill, Boeing vice president for commercial satellite systems, space and intelligence systems, asked March 14 at the Satellite 2012 conference in Washington. O’Neill emphasized four ways government and commercial satellite operators can help each other: using free flyers, existing…
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