PARIS — The merger of the space divisions of Airbus, Thales Group and Leonardo, sill not decided but increasingly likely, could undermine the argument that has underpinned Europe’s Iris2 multi-orbit secure communications constellation, according to industry officials.
Iris2’s reason for being has always been twofold: first as industrial policy, a way to shore up the struggling telecommunications divisions of Airbus and Thales; and second as a critical European government infrastructure at a time of the rise of SpaceX Starlink, the future . . .
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