ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the activities undertaken in European space industry range from satellite manufacturing to the supply of ground equipment and launch services. Telecommunications networks serve as a tool for preserving national security and support law enforcement through intelligence gathering by legal interception and access to retained data. Explanatory notes to European Telecommunications Standards Institute's (ETSI) technical specifications for the design of legal interception solutions recognise the fact that as the telecommunications market in Europe develops, more services will be provided across national frontiers, using terrestrial or satellite communication links. Implementing, operating and maintaining security-orientated capabilities comes with a cost and could constitute a financial barrier to market entry for the satellite services network operator or service provider expected to bear the burden for making the same available. One should identify and become thoroughly familiar with the nature of traffic data required to be retained and precisely where such data could reside in the network architecture and with which entity.
