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Europe will build its own secure satellite network

The European Space Agency will build its own secure satellite network, IRIS2, to provide commercial satellite internet and security.

It’s the EU’s most ambitious space program in a decade and is designed to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink network. It’s built on top of two other EU satellite constellations, Copernicus and Galileo, the largest Earth-observation program and most accurate GPS system, respectively. Though most of the satellites’ work capacity will be used to provide commercial broadband services, a significant part is dedicated to security and crisis management.

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