Turkey, which has NATO's second-largest army, fiercely opposed Mr Fogh Rasmussen's candidacy for NATO's top job because he was Denmark's prime minister during the Prophet Muhammad cartoon crisis and because the Danes have refused to ban Roj TV, a satellite channel run by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that is beamed out of Denmark.
Others, including Pirate Party co-chairman Gregory Engels, seem to prefer the idea of a low-Earth-orbit satellite that would be harder to launch but easier to keep airborne than a slowly-deflating balloon.