French defense authorities would be willing to take up to a 50-percent stake in a Ka-band satellite to be used for low-security broadband communications links with deployed troops and unmanned aerial vehicles, according to the French arms-procurement agency, DGA.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.