PARIS — European governments have a friendly message for Iridium-backed Aireon, EchoStar Mobile and Inmarsat: We covet your spectrum for our future multi-usage, multi-orbit secure communications satellite constellation.
For aircraft flight tracking service Aireon, it’s L band. For EchoStar Mobile and Inmarsat, it’s S band, which both companies are using under licenses from the European Commission that expire in 2027.
The European Commission and the 22-nation European Space Agency (ESA) have joined . . .
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