Europe Is Investing $11 Billion Into IRIS² Global Satcom Constellation

Concept art of Iris2 satellites around Earth

The European IRIS2 system is supposed to comprise close to 300 satellites in low Earth orbit and medium Earth orbit.

Credit: SES
Days after the European Union unveiled its ambition for a sovereign, secure global commercial satellite communications constellation in early 2022, Russia bolstered the case by launching a cyberattack on a commercial satcom system in the run-up to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. What has...
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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