Fate of Europe's IRIS2 Constellation Increasingly Uncertain: Analyst
With its costs ballooning and delays mounting, the EU's proposed IRIS2 constellation appears increasingly at risk of losing government and industrial support, Quilty Space's Caleb Henry wrote Friday. Among its problems, he cited a long list of requirements that add…
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to its complexity. IRIS2 is supposed to be a sovereign alternative to SpaceX yet is smaller and features more expensive user terminals, Henry said. IRIS2 is also seeing less support than anticipated, with partners SES and Eutelsat stretched financially and operationally and Hispasat in the midst of being acquired, he added.