PARIS — Europe’s Iris2 multi-orbit secured connectivity network, facing pressure from European governments to limit it schedule delays, is adding 66 smaller satellites to its low-Earth-orbit component to assure launches starting in 2029, with the full-capacity, 264-satellite system to be launched around 2032, according to European government and industry officials.
Both groups of satellites will be launched into the same 1,200-km orbit.
The early satellites will not be equipped with the full 5G digital capacity promised but will allow secured . . .
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