Satellite Communications and Digital Sovereignty - published: 16/10/2025

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[...] For the remaining 39: 18 have used satellite solutions for less than 5 years for less than a year for more than 10 years only for more than 20 years. Among the 39 responding users of satellite solutions, the applications are essentially satellite solutions allowing for the benefit of observation services for 17 of them of them use it for communication services use these satellite solutions for navigation services, and 3 only for spatial meteorology services, none for satellite spatial control. [...]

[...] Thus, this type of actor can be of any type: public or private. It seemed relevant to me to question these two types of actors because they have by nature interests that could diverge. In a rough way, the general interest for public actors and private interests for private structures whether commercial or not. The clients and prospects therefore belong to either the public sphere and include actors as diverse as international institutions, ministries and foreign and French governments, Fire and Rescue Services (public establishment with administrative character managing firefighters at the level of a department), national police-related organizations, university and research organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations. [...]

[...] One of the main advantages offered by satellites is their ability to transcend planetary boundaries and therefore border issues of border. Satellites offer the possibility for any state to put an object in orbit that allows for a significant amount of information to be captured on neighboring countries. Thus, the satellite conquest allows for a better understanding of one's enemies and enables more targeted strategic military operations. Thus, every state must face different strategic possibilities (Testé p. 148): - space can be considered as a simple support space and can serve as an observation, listening or telecommunications space - space can also become for some major strategic tool' Thus, in the pursuit of our reflection on the evolution of satellite development, it seems relevant to question the issue of digital sovereignty and the central role that satellites play in this context. [...]

[...] Methodology for Exploring Digital Sovereignty 39 3.1.1. Relevance of the Empirical Approach 39 3.1.2. Framing the Study: Selection of Companies Active in the Development and Commercialization of Satellite Solutions for Defense and Civil Security 39 3.2. Presentation of Telespazio, a player in the space market 40 3.3.2.4. Relevance of the Quantitative Approach for this Study 42 Conclusions 45 Bibliography 45 Abstract Digital transformation, referring to the entire set of changes resulting from the expansion of digital, Internet, and social media, offers a unique and unprecedented opportunity for the entire economic and social sphere to face the new challenges that humanity is facing. [...]