{"id":1027254,"date":"2026-08-08T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027254"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:27:58","slug":"eu-commission-signs-contract-to-expand-iris2-satellite-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/eu-commission-signs-contract-to-expand-iris2-satellite-constellation\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Commission signs contract to expand IRIS2 satellite constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: The \u200bEuropean \u200bCommission said on Friday it \u200bsigned an agreement with the space consortium SpaceRISE \u200cto expand \u2060the \u2060IRIS2 satellite constellation \u200bit is currently developing. <\/p>\n<p>The agreement \u200badds 66 satellites into low Earth \u200borbit to the \u2060programme, bringing \u200cthe main \u200bconstellation \u200bto 348 satellites, and \u2060moving it from planning to \u200bfull-scale deployment, the Commission \u200bsaid. <\/p>\n<p>The constellation, a response to Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink and other internet \u200cnetworks, will provide &#8220;sovereign, secure and highly reliable connectivity&#8221; for \u2060European governments, defence and security forces, and emergency services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: The \u200bEuropean \u200bCommission said on Friday it \u200bsigned an agreement with the space consortium SpaceRISE \u200cto expand \u2060the \u2060IRIS2 satellite constellation \u200bit is currently developing. The agreement \u200badds 66 satellites into low Earth \u200borbit to the \u2060programme, bringing \u200cthe main \u200bconstellation \u200bto 348 satellites, and \u2060moving it from planning to \u200bfull-scale deployment, the Commission \u200bsaid. The constellation, a response to Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink and other internet \u200cnetworks, will provide &#8220;sovereign, secure and highly reliable connectivity&#8221; for \u2060European governments, defence and security forces, and emergency services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027266,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027254\/revisions\/1027266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}