Abstract
OLYMPUS is a programme supported by 8 ESA member states, including the UK, Italy and Canada. Its objectives are to develop and prove, in orbit, key satellite technologies which will be relevant to commercial satellite programmes in the 1990s, and to demonstrate new applications of satellites for communications and broadcasting, stimulating all the players in the game. The use of the satellite for service demonstrations starting in 1989 will be normally free of charge but, in principle, the participating organizations will have to meet all other costs of the demonstration, including transport of the material to be transmitted to one of the few uplink stations.
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