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While not one of the highest, or for that matter notable policy within the Republic of Superior, the military automatically realized that it might be best that communications through satellites would aid in their military efforts, allowing for direct communication between forces around the Great Lakes region and Stowe. As a result, at the request of General Lewis Poulat, head of the Western Department, Congress passed in 1994 a meager budget to be used for a military space program.
However, this was largely made moot by the fact that no suitable facility at the time was within reach. However, much of the skeleton of the Keweenaw Launching Site had remained intact, and was eventually chosen as the site for the new base. The space program's budget soon all poured into rebuilding the site using whatever resources were at hand. While Superior had made substantial process in the reconstruction, it was forced to halt its progress with the start of the Saguenay War.
When contact was made in the summer of 2001 with much of the existing world, it came to the military’s attention that the former French spaceport in French Guyana survived Doomsday, the government would attempt to gain access to the facility in order to get a good visual on how to build their spaceport but had to wait until 2005 to ask due to communication issues. When contact was restored Superior was allowed access to the facility but would have to wait until 2009, although by then the League of Nations had taken control of the spaceport and then denied Superior access at the request of Canada.
As of 2022, the Superior Space Command, in collaboration with a myriad of computer scientists, engineers from IBM, New York, and other United Communities states plan to launch its first satellite, the Symphony, into geosynchronous orbit from it Keweenaw Launching Site. The satellite will supposedly enable real-time radio, television and computer communication over the entire Great Lakes region, essentially removing any barriers that have made permanent communication tough and go up until now. However, this move has been met with suspicion and outright objection from many in the international community, even Canada and many ADC and South American states, with some suspecting the satellite to have military applications as well. Both Superior and private-New York citizen scientists refute this claim, however, stating that given all the work that still has to be done regarding rebuilding a healthy world, the pooling together of a myriad of human and material resources to launch a satellite to knock down the barriers of contact is nothing short of a miracle for the common good.