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Plan B for Europe’s Iris2: smaller infrastructure, hosted payloads, Galileo/Copernicus synergies, use of OneWeb & O3b – Space Intel Report

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TUPPER LAKE, NY — European government and industry officials are assessing how a diminished version of the European Commission’s Iris2 secure satellite communications network might emerge if its public-private partnership (PPP) collapses.

One scenario: A stripped-down Iris2 that puts hosted payloads on the second-generation Eutelsat OneWeb broadband LEO constellation and on SES’s O3b mPower medium-Earth-orbit network, which would be expanded to include polar coverage.

It has now become clear that Iris2 as a PPP, with industry financing . . .

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