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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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EU satellite internet: UK, Norway and Ukraine can join IRIS2.

EU Space Commissioner Kubiliius has invited European third countries to participate fully in IRIS2 satellite network, an alternative to Starlink.

IRIS2 is primarily intended to guarantee the member states' national requirements for broadband internet from space in line with the desired digital sovereignty

mediafaro.org/article/20250728

Heise Online · EU satellite internet: UK, Norway and Ukraine can join IRIS2.By Stefan Krempl
#Space#EU#IRIS2
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#Germany 🇩🇪 has already made it known that it believes the #EU 🇪🇺 -backed #IRIS2 mega-constellation of super-secure satellites is too expensive 💰. A report in German newspaper #Handelsblatt suggests that the German army (#Bundeswehr) is backing an alternate orbiting satellite system. At the moment it is unclear whether Italy will ‘go it alone’ and sidestep #IRIS2 advanced-television.com/2025/0

www.advanced-television.comItaly joins Germany in IRIS2 alternate thoughtsGermany has already made it known that it believes the EU-backed IRIS2 mega-constellation of super-secure satellites is too expensive. Now it seems that Italy i
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This article was updated on 16 April to remove mention of the constellation being a national alternative to #IRIS2. While that may still be the case, the evidence 🕵️ currently available suggests otherwise. europeanspaceflight.com/italy-

Here's the original title : #Italy 🇮🇹 moves ahead with study for national IRIS2 alternative europeanspaceflight.com/catego

European Spaceflight · Italy Moves Ahead With Study for 100-Satellite ConstellationItaly is moving ahead with Phase 2 of a feasibility study exploring the development of a 100-satellite constellation.
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#Europe already is working on their own system, called #IRIS2. Application focus apparently already broadened from government/corporate use to B2C.

defence-industry-space.ec.euro

While French #Eutelsat is building a consumer system with Airbus. They recently announced world’s first 5G non-terrestrial network connection (straight to phone, no terminal required), leveraging #OneWeb LEO satellites.

mediatek.com/press-room/eutels

Defence Industry and SpaceIRIS² | Secure ConnectivityIRIS² | Secure Connectivity
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@francal @politica "è compatibile con il progetto #IRIS2."
🙄 Come se si trattasse di una questione di compatibilità tecnica e non di destinazione dei fondi pubblici europei, di posti di lavoro e investimenti per Leonardo e Telespazio.

Ma questo è un buon promemoria del fatto che GovSatComm non è una prospettiva lontana. Grazie per il link a @euractiv la loro copertura multilingue sulla politica europea merita un pubblico più ampio.

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Out of the other media coverage Politico got it almost right, because they clearly explain that #IRIS2 is not a competitor to #Starlink.

Their title (“Relax Elon — the EU isn’t an immediate threat to Starlink”) is still a bit manipulative, because it kind of ignores the fact that Elon does indeed run a project - the SpaceX #Starshield - for which IRIS2 is a direct competitor. But later on in the article they do explain it.

But here’s a paragraph that I find much more valuable because I myself also used this analogy as well:

However, the bloc’s earlier space programs — such as GPS-alternative Galileo and Earth observation system Copernicus — also attracted similar criticism, but are now considered world-beating space infrastructure.

My own point was that media has a tendency to moan about everything without really digging into the essence of the problem. When Galileo was rolled out, the media moaned “why own GNSS when there’s free GPS”. Now when Russia is jamming GPS in EU, everyone is again moaning “why EU isn’t doing anything with it”. Well, they actually do and both Galileo and IRIS2 are direct responses to these challenges.

https://www.politico.eu/article/relax-elon-musk-eu-threat-starlink-iris2-broadband-internet/

POLITICO · Relax Elon — the EU isn’t an immediate threat to StarlinkBy Joshua Posaner