{"id":1027345,"date":"2026-08-08T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027345"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:27:58","slug":"hispasat-wins-lead-role-in-eus-e15-6-billion-iris2-satellite-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/hispasat-wins-lead-role-in-eus-e15-6-billion-iris2-satellite-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispasat wins lead role in EU&#8217;s \u20ac15.6 billion IRIS2 satellite network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish defence company Indra said on Friday its majority-owned satellite operator Hispasat was named prime contractor for antennas, control systems and ground links \u200cin \u2060the \u2060European Union&#8217;s IRIS2 secure satellite network, with a budget of over \u20ac1.6 billion ($1.74 billion). <\/p>\n<p>The \u200boperator, 89.68% owned by Indra, will also lead a Low Earth \u200bOrbit layer for \u2060direct-to-device and \u200cInternet of Things connectivity, \u200bwith \u200bup to \u20ac600 million committed. <\/p>\n<p>The award comes after talks \u200bbetween the European Commission, European \u200bSpace Agency and SpaceRISE, a consortium formed of Eutelsat, SES, and Hispasat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish defence company Indra said on Friday its majority-owned satellite operator Hispasat was named prime contractor for antennas, control systems and ground links \u200cin \u2060the \u2060European Union&#8217;s IRIS2 secure satellite network, with a budget of over \u20ac1.6 billion ($1.74 billion). The \u200boperator, 89.68% owned by Indra, will also lead a Low Earth \u200bOrbit layer for \u2060direct-to-device and \u200cInternet of Things connectivity, \u200bwith \u200bup to \u20ac600 million committed. The award comes after talks \u200bbetween the European Commission, European \u200bSpace Agency and SpaceRISE, a consortium formed of Eutelsat, SES, and Hispasat.<\/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-1027345","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\/1027345","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=1027345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027346,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027345\/revisions\/1027346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}