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Statement of Agreed Facts: 1. The Akeran Federation (Akera) and the Commonwealth of Mheni (Mheni) areneighboring states with a long history of competition, diverging political systems,alliances and disputes. Mheni is a large mountainous State on the coast of the Botuos Sea.Akera is comprised of a federation of nearly 500 islands, some large, some small,extending 950 kilometers north-south closely along the length of Mheni. Both nationsallocate a significant part of their budgets to civil and military space programmes. Akeran和Mheni是两个有着悠久竞争历史的邻国,两国在政治系统,联盟和纠纷方面都存在分歧。Mheni是Botuos海岸边的一个多山的国家。Akera是一个由近500个大大小小的岛屿组成联邦国家,南北绵延950公里与Mheni接壤。民用和军用太空项目在两国的预算中均占有重要比例。 2. In the late 20th century, huge reserves of natural gas and crude oil were discoveredunder Akera’s island chain, and it became a major petroleum exporter in the global marketplace. Historically, inter-island trade and travel was difficult because the waters throughout Akera are threatened by many dangerous reefs and other natural hazards. Akera’s economy prospered from the petroleum trade, and it was able to exploit these resources to eliminate the navigation threats, enhance its own national and economic security, and enable sea-borne trade by supertankers and container ships to its islands. Akera achieved this success in part by developing and flying its own precision navigation and timing (PNT) satellite system, known as SEANAV. 在20世纪末期,在Akera的群岛底部发现储量巨大的天然气和原油, Akera在全球市场已成为一个主要的石油出口国。从历史上看,在Akera各岛屿之间的贸易和旅游十分困难,因为水域之间存在许多危险，如珊瑚礁和其它自然灾害。Akera的经济发展得益于石油贸易,它能够开发利用这些资源来消除导航威胁,增强国家实力，保障经济安全,使用超大型油轮和集装箱船在岛屿间发展海上贸易。Akera取得了这样的成功在一定程度上是通过开发和使用自己的精密导航和定时(PNT)卫星系统,称为SEANAV。 3. The SEANAV constellation is a set of 18 payloads hosted onboard a variety of commercial satellites that have been launched by sea-based commercial space launch providers into inclined, near-circular, medium Earth orbits. The SEANAV hosted payloads have been fully operational since 2010. The SEANAV PNT capabilities have been employed b