The new spacecraft will use payload items held in reserveFrom The BBC:
Skynet 5, the UK's single biggest space project, is to be extended.
The £3.6bn system, which provides secure satellite telecommunications to British armed forces, will be boosted by the addition of a fourth spacecraft.
The first three satellites were only launched in 2007-2008, but military planners envisage even more bandwidth will be needed in the future.
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