AMSTERDAM — The bloom is off the rose for Europe’s $12-billion Iris2 secure connectivity multi-orbit satellite constellation in the minds of an increasing number of European government and industry officials.
Some of them were skeptical from the beginning, but others had hope that a public-private partnership between the European Commission and clear-eyed satellite fleet operators seeking a profit would produce a cost-effective network tied to clearly identified user needs.
But five months after the SpaceRise consortium — fleet operators . . .
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