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Eutelsat Awards €5.4B IRIS² Satellite Contracts
The European Union
— Sep 10, 2026
Aerospacelab has won a €2.4 billion contract to design, manufacture and deliver 264 satellites for the EU’s IRIS² secure-communications network, accounting for the majority of the program’s 348 satellites. Airbus Defence and Space will build the 66-satellite first LEO layer and Thales Alenia Space will supply the payloads as part of the SpaceRISE consortium led by Eutelsat.
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Nicole Hardy
Spending over 5 billion euros on IRIS² should finally give Europe independent secure communications without foreign reliance.