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🧵

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/nnienass/status/1593566628402249729

Background

In February @defis_eu proposed a new multi-orbital connectivity infrastructure to improve the resilience of EU communication services.

The new #IRIS2 = Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnection & Security by Satellites

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/nnienass/status/1593566633095831554

What will it provide?

Critical communication services where terrestrial networks are absent or disrupted, e.g. in Ukraine or in case of natural disasters.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/nnienass/status/1593566635360665601

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.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/nnienass/status/1593566637600301056