German military: We’re moving fast on our own broadband constellation, to be interoperable with allied networks

by Peter B. de Selding

BRUSSELS — German military officials told their European counterparts that Germany intends to move quickly to develop a multibillion-euro LEO constellation for secure low-latency communications of some 200 satellites and that whatever its final form, it will be interoperable with Europe’s Iris2 and other allied constellations.

They said interoperability among constellations improves the resilience of each to attacks and that this principle is embedded their thinking as they execute on their plans to spend 35 billion euros ($41 billion) on military space between now and 2030.

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