French military likes Iris2 altitude over Starlink’s; Eutelsat says OneWeb holds its own in key performance metrics

by Peter B. de Selding

LE BOURGET, France — Four organizations heavily involved inn the design of Europe’s future Iris2 dual-use, multi-orbit secure communications constellation — Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat Group, the French Defense Ministry and Thales Alenia Space — said they were focused on developing the network to meet user requirements and not on whether Iris2 will offer superior performance to SpaceX’s Starlink.

The European Commission, which is the majority owner of Iris2, routinely says it will be better than Starlink. But for . . .

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