SARIT and SICRAL
Two new GEO systems are under consideration by Italy for deployment by the end of the decade. SARIT (Satellite di Radiodiffusuione Italiane) could provide direct broadcast television service formerly handled by ESA's Olympus Satellite and may be based on the ITALSAT design. This ambitious project is currently suffering from the organizational and budgetary difficulties at ASI. Also being designed is the SICRAL (Sistema Italiana de Communicazione Riservente Allarmi) military communications system with satellites positioned at 16 degrees and 22 degrees E. The multi-purpose spacecraft would include transponders for 8/7 GHz and 14/11 GHz communications. Alternatively, SICRAL may appear as a transponder package on another host spacecraft. In either case, launch is not expected until 1997 or later.
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