French military: Iris2 won’t be deployed by 2030, we’ll use OneWeb until it is; looking at Germany’s constellation, too

by Peter B. de Selding

LA PLATA, Maryland — The French military acknowledged that Europe’s Iris2 multi-orbit secure connectivity constellation will not be in orbit in 2030 as hoped but stressed its importance to France’s future “collaborative combat” strategy and said it would make do with the military-augmented commercial OneWeb constellation operated by Eutelsat Group until Europe's Iris2 was deployed.

France’s defense force is also considering the use of capacity on the German military’s planned Satcom-Bw-4 constellation, with many Iris2 similarities, depending . . .

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