Europe Expands IRIS² As Constellation Gets The Green Light

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Credit: European Union
The European Union (EU) and the Spacerise industrial consortium working to deploy IRIS 2 have agreed to expand the planned secure broadband constellation by 66 low-Earth-orbit (LEO) spacecraft in giving the $10 billion-plus project the formal go-ahead. The core constellation is now set to include...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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