EU enters IRIS² build phase with expanded capacity plans

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Source: Unsplash / François Genon

EU kicks off “full-scale deployment” of satellite programme two years ahead of schedule, with expanded architecture and accelerated deployment timeline. Supplier base firmed up and an additional €4bn in funding aimed at helping EU deliver ‘sovereign’ defence and security services faster…

This article includes:

  • Organisations: Aerospacelab; Airbus Defence and Space; Amazon; Deutsche Telekom; European Commission; European Space Agency; EU Agency for the Space Programme; Eutelsat; Hisdesat; Hispasat; OHB; Orange; SES; SpaceRISE consortium; SpaceX; Telespazio; Thales Alenia Space; Thales Six.
  • Geographies: Africa; Arctic; Europe; Hungary; Poland; Russia; Spain; Ukraine.
  • People: Jérémie Godet.
  • Themes: 5G core; bandwidth-light IoT services; climate change; communications infrastructure; Copernicus; data centre services; data protection; defence services; direct-to-device solutions; emergency services; Galileo; ground infrastructure; HardGov; information technology services; international satellite customers; IRIS2 satellite constellation; LightGov; low-Earth orbit; medium-Earth orbit; satellite navigation; satellite operators; satellite programme; secure networks; security accreditation; sovereign communications infrastructure; space industry; terrestrial coverage.

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