Image: The payload for Hylas was developed through Esa's Artes telecoms research programme From The BBC:
The date was September 1999 and banker David Williams was sitting on a beach in Santa Monica:
"I'd just spent a soul-destroying day at a satellite manufacturer, trying to push forward a project and getting bogged down in just the most ridiculous bureaucracy. And I was thinking there had to be an easier way of doing the satellite business. It's not that complicated - you get some money, you pay someone to build a satellite, you launch it, you flog the capacity. How hard can that be? I was venting my frustration to my wife and she said: 'if you think you're so bloody clever, go and do it yourself!'"
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