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13 February 1980
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- Y ~[ORLDWIDE REPORT
- TELECOMMUNICATI6NS POLICY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPM~NT
(FOUO 4/80)
CoHrE~TS PA~E `
_ WORL~WIDE AFFAIRS ~ _
Matra Reveals Worldwide Telecommunications Ambitions _
(Pierre Langereux; AIR & COSMOS, 1 Dec 79) 1
ASIA
JAPAN
Briefs
- Super-LST Computers 5
LATIN AMERICA -
INZER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
Latin American Church To Lstablish Own Ne;~s Agency
(PRELA, 12 Jan SQ) 6
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
- ~ BURUNDI
. Briefs ~ _
1 French Telecommunications Aid
COMORO ISLAP;DS _
Briefs
International Telecar.rmunications Company 8
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CONGO '
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- Radio Wave Link Opened
GUINEA
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CCCE Telecommuniaations Loan
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MATRA REVEALS WORLDWIDE TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMBITIONS
Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 1 Dec 79 pp 41-42
[Article by Pierre Langereux] _
[Text] Martra's goal in the telecommunications satellite field is to obtain
at least four and if possible seven export markets, that is around 25 percent
of the world market between now and 1990, disclosed Noel Mignot, director of
the Matra Space group, in a press conference on 27 November at Velizy. This
- would re~resent about 20 satellites (with three satellites per system) which
would join the 11 satellites of the "ECS (Command and Service Squadron) -
MAR~CS - Telecom 1" series presently under construction. These projects will
. finally compete with those of the best American builders!
If this hope comes to fruition, Matra will owe it certainly to the successes
achieved with its partners in the European industrial consortium MESH (the -
ECS and MARECS satellites), but additionally and above all to its own success
in the competition for the national telecommunications satellite Telecom 1.
Last 19 September Matra was chosen as chief builder of Telecom 1 French
telecommunications and telecomputer satellites (AIR & COSMOS No 779), after
- a lively industrial competition (against Aerospatiale),
Matra's proposal for building three Telecom 1 satellites and for setting up ,
~ the propulsion system (manufactured by Thomson-CSF [General Radio Company]
for the duration of a separate contract) rose to fr 250,000,000 with, accord-
ing to circumstances, an additional fr 25,000,000 in subsidies or less fr
r 35,000,000 in penalties. This figure was fr 60,000,000 less than irs com-
petition's.
- At the moment Matra has received from the Telecom 1 project committee, con-
sisting of the CNES (National CEnter for Space Studies) and the Telecommunica-
= tions General Administration (DGT) a nreliminary contract for fr 7,000,000
- for the B stage, which will be completed 15 February 1980 w~_th the delivery
of final manufacturing proposals from Matra, the project's head builder, and
from Thomson-CSF, i.~uilder of the satellites' propulsion system. The final
building contract ;:or the Telecom 1 satellites must be accepted on 1 March
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1980. It is expected that the project's team will broductioneoflthehfirst
Niatra center in Toulouse in July 1980 and that the p ,
satellite will start during the first half of 1982� The launchings of the
first two Telecom 1 satellites are expected in December 1982 and in April
1983, with Ariane rockets. The placing into operation of the Telecom 1
system (with one satellite working and one orbitting in reverse) is expected
by the DGT for 1 July 1y83.
- European Sub-Contractors -
The industrial organization planned by Matra already includes severaTO ellers;
European sub-contractors: ERNO (Germany) for the position control p p
British Aerospace (Great Britain) for power to run machinery, furnishing of
components and wiring; Aeritalia (Italy) for structure; SAAB (Sweden) for the
telemeasure-telecommand equipment; INTA (National Institute for Aerospace
Research) (Spain) for tha telemeasure-telecommand aerials; and Fokker-VFW
(Netherlands) for the nutation shock absorbers.
Moreover, two industrial competitions are still running to construct the
thermic control system of the satellites (between ERNO and Aerospatial) and
for the solar panels (between Fokker-VFW and Aerospatiale).
The final choice of sub-contractors for Telecom 1, which will be discussed
~ with the CNES and the DGT, will depend not only on technical considerations
but also on political ones.
Nevertheless one can already observe that all the European sub-contractors
presently chosen by Matra are members of the MESH consortium, whose current
president is moreover Noel Mignot. This is obviously not amenttarplatformce.
Matra's proposal for Telecom 1 in fact willingly uses equip
directly originating from the ECS and MARECS satellites built under the
direction of British Aerospace. On the foundation of this series of 11
satellites (S ECS + 3 MARECS + 3 Telecom 1) Matra thus was able to lower its _
prices to obtain the French satellite market and to offer satellites at com-
petitive prices (with US prices) in export markets. Therefore, the price of
the Telecom 1 satellites is around 30 percent less than the price of the last
ECS satellites (3 to 5) whose cost is itself 30 percent less than the price
of tha first ECS's (1 and 2). ' -
On this point Matra learned a lesson frcm the call for offers for the Brazilian ,
- telecommunications satellite, stzted Noel Mignot. Let us recall in fact that
for the Brazilsat project Matra at that time had made an offer above $100,000,000 _
(for satellites of 550 kg it is true), while the American company Hughes Air-
_ craft, given the contract, offered three satellites (of 350 kg) for only
$35,000,000! It~was an unbeatable price, even for the otheTodaerMatrabwouldrs
(r-.~re than $50,000,000 for RCA and $70,000,000 racticall. half the preceding -
_ be in a position to make a competitive offer, p Y
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Export Markets
~ '!h~ Telec~m 1 project rherefore is tlie indispensabl~ fc~undation for attacking
~~xp~>rt m,irk~~t4, wlth ti~c rec:ummendation ~~C wor{cing equl~~ment usecl by the
I~rench P and T(f'ostal and Telecnmmunications Administration).
Several countries - Australia, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, the Arab nations -
are already interested in the telecommunications satellites of the ECS, Tele-
com 1 family, states Matra.
For the countries of the Arab league, the European Ara~sat project introduced -
under the "leadership" of British Aerospace, with Matra, is competing with
that of Hughes Aircraft. The MESH project is a satellite o.riginating from
Telecom 1 and Brazilsat, whose propulsion system was created by Thomson-CSF
wit}i the participation of Marconi (Great Britain) for certain equipment.
Responses to the call for offers prepared by Comsat, consultant of the Arab
countries, must be delivered on 7 January 1980. The choice of head builder
is expected before next summer. _
Colombia, which also chose Comsat as consultant, must tY~eoretically launch its
call for offers in the middle or at the end of 1980.
In Argentina, the government commission that has just made the rounds of
American and European manufacturers, must theoretically announce a recommenda-
tion regarding its needs about March 1980.
In Australia, the study group that in the same way made the rounds of
. manufacturers recommended creating a national system of telecommunications -
sate?iites (AIR & COSMOS No 788). An international call for offers is ex-
pected in a year or a year and a half. -
In Mexico the project for a national telecommunications satellite was
recently mentioned again on the occasion of ~he Franco-Mexican Exposition,
which has just ended. A call fo~ offers is also expected.
Matra seeks especially to enter the telecommunications satel].ite market in
South and Central America by using particularly the subsidiary Interelec
' (Matra group) in Mex.ico and its branches in Caracas and through Venezuela,
Noel Mignot explained.
. ~ But it is not acting alone. Matra plann.ed with British Aerospace and
- Thomson-CSF to share, according to conditions, the areas of commercial
possibilities and marke.ting activities to conquer exp~rt markets . Thus _
British Aerospace, which has made a special eff~rt in the Arab countries
for 5 years, is the project head named by Arabsat. An agreement was also
concluded with Thomson-CSF naming the French electronics firm as the head
in providing a complete systen~ of telecommunications (satellites, stat~.ons,
radio beams, computer terminals) for which Matra will build the spatial portion,
while the firm in Velizy will be the head in installing a network of tele-
communications satellites for which Thomson-CSF will then provide the land
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- Matra is also expected to offer to the clients "ready to use" financial
packages in which they will have as sole financial mediatorrocesstof being .
bank of tfie head builder. This system is currently in the p
- prepared, and a final meeting on this subject was moreover expected on 30
November among ttie manufacturers, the CNES and the French and British minis-
tries involved. In the same way, in the area of insurance of commercial
risks, only the national organization of the head builder's cauntry (Coface
in France) will have authority.
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JAPAN
BRIEFS
SUPER-LSI COMPUTERS--Fujitsu, LTD--the largest Japanese computer maker--
disclosed on 8 January that it has begun delivering a limited number of
new model computers--M-150F and M-160F--which are equipped with a super- -
LSI (large-scale integrated) circuit having a 64-kilobit memory capacity,
4 times as large as that of semiconductors available thus far. Thus,
- Fujitsu will be the second to equip its computers with a 64-kilobit _
super-LSI circuit, following IBM of the Un~~ed States. The firm is now
working to mass-produce the 64-kilob it super-LSI circuit, realizing its
important role in the 1980's in introducing technical innovations and
its expected wider use not only for computers but a?so for v~rious com-
munications instruments, electric appliances, and automobile components.
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BURUNDI
- BRIEFS
FRENCH TELECOMMUNICATIONS AID--On 16 October, the Central Fund for Economic ~
- Cooperation granted a loan of 12 million French francs to Burundi. This
loan will be applied to the financing of a telecommuaccess~to the intern
cluding the installation of a ground station giv.ing
national satellite system. The Central Fund loan will be supplemented by -
a grar~t from the French Aid and Cooperation Fund (FAC). [Text] [Paris
MARCH ES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in Frenrh 26 Oct 79 p 2905]
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COMORO ISLANDS
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INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY--Led by France Cables et Radio
company director Selosse, a technical mission left Moroni on 28 November
following 4 days of business meetings. Selosse said that the purpose
of the meetings was the establishment of a Comoran International Tele-
communications Campany ISociete de Telecommunications Internationales
des Comores, Sticom], scheduled to begin officially on 1 January 1980.
"The company will provide international telecommunications links (tPlephone,
telegraph) with the rest of the world," Selosse said. [Excerpt] [Paris
MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MEDITERRANEENS in French 7 Dec 79 p 3410]
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CONGO
BRIEFS
RADIO WAVE LINK UPENED--Color_~1 Sassou 1Vguesso, chief of state, presided
over on 30 December a cerer.:ony to open a radio wave link constructed with
French aid in the northecn part of the Congo. The Congolese minister of
information, posts a$d te~ecommunications, Capt Florent Tsiba, stressed
on this occasion the im~ortance which telephone and television assumed
in the north. These means of commun:tcation, he staCed, permit the infor-
mation and propaganda of the Congolese Labor Party [PCT] to be disseminated _
in the most remote recesses of the country. Captain Tsiba added that as
the northern axis had been put into service, the southern axis remained _
to be constructed ao as to double the coaxial cable connecting Brazzaville
with Pointe-Noire. He also pointed out that Pointe-No3re will be Pquipped
with a small television unit whose opening should take place very soon. _
The minister called to mind that the Congo had adopted a color television
system, as a result of new equipment already Pa~isYe~CHESnTROPICAUX ET
acquisition as part of French aid. [Text] [
MEDITERRANEEN~ in French 11 Jan 80 p 90] _
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GUINEA
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CCCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOAN--The Central Fund for Economic Cooperation
granted a 48 million franc loan to the Republic of Guinea on 20 December
1y79. This loan will assist in the financing of a telecommunications
development program, the cost of which has been estimated at 74 million _
- francs. This program includes the field of technical operations, as well -
as the training of operating and maintenance personnel. [Text] [Paris
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SYMPHONIE SATELLITES SEEN USABLE SEVERAL MORE YEAR.S
Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 5 Jan 80 pp 34-35
[Text] It has been S yeara since the first Franco-German "Symphonie"
- telecommunications satellite was successfully launched from Cape Kennedy
by an American "Thor Delta 2914" rocket (19 December 1974). The second
symphAnie was launched under the same conditions 27 August 1975. CNES
[National Center for Space Studies] announces that the two satellitee
have always functioned quite satisfactorily and therefore, saee miahap,
it is posaible to expect to use the satellites for several more years.
The Symphonie program was conducted by CIFAS [Franco-German ConsorCium
for Symphonie Satellite] headed by Pierre Madon of Aerospatiale. CIFAS
comprises six principal contractors; three French (Aerospatiale, SAT,
and Thomson-CSF), and three German (MBB, Siemens, and AEG-Telefunken).
More Than 110 Uses in 36 Countries
- A large international experimental program, in which 20 countries with
more than 50 ground atations parti~ipatey has developed since the launch-
- ing. This international cooperation extends from some countries of the
Americas (Canada, United States, Argentina) to India and China, passing ~
through many European and African nations such as USSR, the Scandinavian -
countries, Belgium, Spain, and Tunisia. It also applies to international
organizations auch as UN, UNESCO, and Red Cross.
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On the national level, Symphonie has been used for several years by PTT's
administration to insure the links with the island of Reunion, and to _
~ transmit television programs to Saint Pierre-et-Miquelor~.
7~'his program of scientific and technical experimenCs began as early as
January 1970 when Symphonie started transmitting a Franco-German program
conduct:ed by the two principal stations of Pleumeur-Bodou and Raisting.
It has been continued regularly eversince on a larger scale, in coopera-
, tion u~rith many countries, such as Belgium and the Netherlands to
exper:tment with transmission te~hniques in 1977; Canada, China, and
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India in 1978 and 1979 to e:~.cperiment with techniques for ~ynchronizing
international atomic clocks; the United States to experiment i.n 1977 This
and 1979 with high output intercontinental links between computers.
program also allowed some tY:ird world countries to become familiar with
_ space techniquea; in particular, India since June 1977 and China since
- May 1918. '
A program to asaist great causes began September 1975, when one Symphonie
station was turned over to Telecom 75 at the UN in the interests of main-
taining peace in the Near East. The program has been expande~: eince,
~ both with the UN and with the German Red Cross.
Using Symphanie for education began in ivory Coast as early as May 1976
- and has since continusd, in particular with Quebec.
Some operational uses ha~ve also been exercised, such as radio transmis-
sions to Rwanda since 1976, telephone transmissions between the mother
country and the island of Reunion since October 1976, and television
transmissions to Saint Pierre-et-Miquelon since December 1977.
Some demonstrations of these occasional uses for special events, in
particular during the travels of the president of the republic, are at
last broadcast regularly, beginning with the first talk between Mr Giscard
d'Estaing and Mr Schmidt in January 1975.
The latest uses of the "Symphonie" satellites, in December 1979, have been
the following.
daily television newscasts from the mother country to the ieland of _
Reunion and Saint Pierre-et-Miquelon
telephone links between Saudi Arabia and Parie (two circuits) _
permanent transmissions of broadcasted programe of the voice of Germany -
to Kigali, Rwanda, to be retransmitted on short wave
- UN telephone links in the interest of maintaining the peace between
Jerusalem, Geneva, and Lebanon ~
synchronization of atom~.c clocks between France and Canada r
- establishment of video-conferences between Kourou and Paris in prepara-
tion for the launching of the "Ariane" rocket
audiographic university teleconference between Bouake (Ivory ~oast) _
and Paris
experimental techniques transmissions from Raisting to Le Caire and
from Pleumeur-Bodou to Berlin
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- perfecting telephone transmissions (24 circuits) between Buenos Aires
and Resiatencia and television transmiasions from France to the follow-
ing stations
= r experimentation with a very small station which can be boarded on
a ahip
. various experimental stations of German DFVLR [expansion unknown]
These links use a great variety of ground stations, both because of their
characteristics and their origins
B Intelsat standard stations at Pleumeur-Bodou, Raistin, Saint-Denis ~
in Reunion, and Cayenne
stations with 9 m antennas at Toulouae, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Le
Caire, Ottawa, Weilheim, Abid~an, and Bouake
stations with 4.5 m antennas at Kigali, Geneva, Jerusalem, Lebanon,
- Riad, Jeddah, Buenos Aires, Resiatencia
_ station with a 2.2 m antenna at Rennea
Thus in 5 years, the Symphonie satellites have been used for 110 opera-
tions, which have required the operation of around 130 ground stations
in more than 36 countries. -
Franco-German space cooperation, which began more than 12 yeara ago with
Symphonie, continues with the ~oint development of a direct television
satellite pre-operational program. The satellites will be launched by
Ariane rockets beginning in 1983. One of these satellites (TDF 1) will
_ be used by French Telediffusion, and the other (TV-SAT) will be used by
German television; the third will be a back up satellite.
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