Yesterday, the EU co-legislators have reached a provisional political agreement on the new 🇪🇺 secure connectivity satellite constellation.
IRIS² was born.
The 3rd 🇪🇺 constellation after @CopernicusEU & Galileo. This is a big step for #EUSpace🚀
A thread🧵
What will it provide?
Critical communication services where terrestrial networks are absent or disrupted, e.g. in Ukraine or in case of natural disasters.
How?
As public-partnership model with two types of secure communication services:
1️governmental
2️private
Governmental services are publicly funded. To complement those private contractors are chosen to use this infrastructure & offer additional services.
What will it cost?
€2.4 billion from the EU budget
+ X @esa contribution
+ Y private investments
You can find the further information on the website of @defis_eu 👇
https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-space-policy/eu-space-programme/iriss_en
As shadow rapporteur for the @GreensEFA, I was able
to secure important improvements:
✅ 1st ever sustainability article of a EU space program
✅ inclusion of #NewSpace & microlaunchers #SMEs
✅ possibility to offer affordable internet services
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/nnienass/status/1593566641991942146