 |  ESA relay satellite system to spark European and Canadian leadership
 4 December 2009
More than a hundred senior managers and experts from European space industry, national agencies
and ESA packed a Geneva conference room to learn about the commercial opportunities offered by
ESA’s planned data relay satellite system. The EDRS system will be developed as a so-called ’public-
private partnership’ (PPP), an innovative structure in which ESA leads the creation of the initial system
and infrastructure that is later taken over for full exploitation and further development by a commercial
partner. Hence the intense interest from space industry at this week’s EDRS Workshop, organised by
ESA’s Telecoms directorate and co-sponsored by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and the Swiss
Space office.
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