Choose your assessment of Europe’s Iris2 constellation: Rivada’s or Eutelsat’s. Or maybe a little of both

by Peter B. de Selding

WASHINGTON — If you have spent the last three years trying to finance a multibillion-dollar broadband connectivity constellation to be used exclusively for government and corporate networks, only to come up short when a major backer pulled away in the wake of Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel;

If you have watched the geopolitical climate degrade to where your constellation’s focus on data security, data sovereignty and data residency, never touching the terrestrial internet, now seems to be exactly what governments want;

If despite this you have . . .

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