The most prominent names in Europe's space and telecommunications arena have joined hands to place a bid to build the Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity, and Security by Satellite or IRISAs Musk's massive constellation of low-Earth satellites gets to work and connects people in far-off locations to the internet, the European Union does not look keen on relying on a single private service, especially provided by Musk, for its requirements.
According to a press release, IRIS2 aims to deliver a "new secure and resilient connectivity infrastructure" to Europe's governments, businesses, and citizens. The region has seen Musk flip-flop overThe European Commission's call for tender of the satellite constellation was answered by an open consortium consisting of the biggest names in the space and telecommunications arena in Europe.
This included Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, Hispasat, SES, Thales Alenia Space on the space front, Deutsche Telekom, OHB, Orange, Hisdesat, Telespazio, and Thales from the telecommunications sector. Together, the consortium wants to build the satellite constellation on a "multi-orbit architecture" which will be "interoperable with the terrestrial ecosystem," the press release said.