PARIS — One of the surprises of the contract awards for Europe’s Iris2 multi-orbit constellation of secure connectivity satellites is that SES has been given the role not only of overseeing the construction of the 18 Iris2 MEO-orbit satellites, but also of providing the satellites’ payloads.
The original assumption was that Thales Alenia Space would win the payload contract, OHB SE would build the satellite platforms and SES would oversee production to assure schedule, cost and capacity compliance.
Somewhere along the line, SES . . .
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