"Sovereign" in the context of spacecraft means satellites that are designed, built and operated within a territory without relying on external suppliers for key subsystems.
If you insist on inventing new definitions of the word like "total subjugation of the individual to the state", at least keep it sufficiently on topic to explain how parts of a satellite coming from Italy and France and ground ops from Spain without relying on imports from the US or South Africa is going to lead to this...
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"Sovereign" in the context of spacecraft means satellites that are designed, built and operated within a territory without relying on external suppliers for key subsystems.
If you insist on inventing new definitions of the word like "total subjugation of the individual to the state", at least keep it sufficiently on topic to explain how parts of a satellite coming from Italy and France and ground ops from Spain without relying on imports from the US or South Africa is going to lead to this...