PARIS — Airbus Chief Executive Guillaume Faury expressed optimism that current discussions with Thales and Leonardo would end in an agreement to merge the three companies’ space divisions, but said the process could take two years to clear regulatory hurdles.
Faury was similarly confident that the Iris2 secure communications constellation being designed by the European Commission and Europe’s three largest commercial satellite operators would be deployed, but not necessarily in its current form. Airbus is the designated prime for Iris2’s low-orbit . . .
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