Luxembourgish data center operator LuxConnect is to host one of the control centers for the European Union’s upcoming IRIS² satellite constellation. The company this week said it will host the control ...

Deutsche Telekom has announced its support for the European Union’s IRIS² satellite network, intended to reinforce sovereign connectivity capacity for governments, businesses, and citizens of Europe.

The fact that the IRIS² satellite consortium includes just about every major name in the European space business provides a strong clue as to the project’s overall importance. IRIS², with a nod to the ...

The European Commission has signed a concession contract for IRIS², the European satellite constellation announced two years ago, which will oversee the development, deployment, and operation of a ...

SES CEO Steve Collar, speaking to analysts following on from the satellite operator’s Q1 results on May 4th, said the European Union’s third global satellite constellation, IRIS², was a “strategic ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission on Monday awarded contracts to push forward delayed plans for a 10.6 billion euro ($11.13 billion) secure European satellite constellation in response to ...

— The EU’s IRIS² satellite communications network project is increasingly troubled. — NATO seeks to make procuring arms faster, the alliance's procurement agency boss Stacy Cummings told me. — The U.K ...

A group of European space and telecommunications players have come together to form a partnership to respond to the European Commission’s (EC) call for tender to make possible the third in its ...

PARIS — The European Commission picked a consortium led by SES, Eutelsat and Hispasat to deploy the IRIS² satellite constellation, as the European Union seeks its own satellite broadband system to ...

A group of European space and telecommunications are forming a partnership to bid to support the future European satellite constellation IRIS² (Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and ...

Why it matters: Europe is betting on its own homegrown space expertise to create a new communication network free of Elon Musk's (or even China's) influence. Thus, a new coalition is born with the ...