The DDS has placed a 5 year contract with 3 UNP space companies work 475 million zarks to upgrade and maintain 6 strategic satellite networks. The networks (3 around Proxima 7, 2 around Solaris and 1 around Proxima 5) provide a mixture of duties including weather reconnaissance, surveilance and back-up communications. Two more networks will be added to P5 as part of the contract as the planet becomes the new command heart of the DDS from next year.
Director of Technology Sea Urchin said that many of the duties the satellites perform are mundane but vital. Sea Urchin added that the DDS would be spending around 1.2 billion zarks on communications infrastructure upgrades over the next 4 years too.
