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The SALTO project is funded by the European Commission to ensure sovereign, reusable access to space for the European Union.
The GOVSATCOM Hub has been designed to integrate future assets from IRIS2, the European Union's planned multi-orbital secure communications satellite constellation.
In 2024 the European Union Agency for the Space Programme awarded GMV a multi-year contract valued at 107 million euros to lead a European industrial consortium to design, develop, and deploy the GOVSATCOM Hub.
The contract supporting the GOVSATCOM Hub is part of a programme funded by the European Union and implemented through the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA).
The Tenerife initiative includes a teleporto and satellite tracking station project funded by the European Union and promoted with Canarysat, a company of the Arquimea group, in Tenerife.
The European Union Space Act proposal, OECD work on Earth observation data, and UNOOSA guidance on responsible AI point toward more formal constraints on how space-derived datasets are collected, shared, and repurposed.
The European Union free trade agreement with India is expected to enter into force at the end of 2026.
Satellite manufacturers, solar panel suppliers, and composite materials providers across the space value chain must analyze whether their products require specific export licenses for transfers outside the European Union.
The European Union recognized space as a domain in 2023.
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme awarded a framework contract to Thales Alenia Space on February 12, 2026 to oversee the design, development, and deployment of the European Global Navigation Satellite System Service Demonstrator (ESD).
The Galileo navigation constellation supports economic activity equivalent to approximately 10% of the European Union's GDP.
The framework contract with Thales Alenia Space follows a series of infrastructure upgrades aimed at maintaining European autonomy in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing data.
Under the DIA’s Partner pillar, Canada will seek to co-develop space systems with trusted allies including Five Eyes members, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Indo-Pacific partners while prioritizing retention of Canadian intellectual property.
Arianespace linked the Amazon launches to training activities for a European Union flagship multi-orbital constellation project planned to begin deployment in 2029.
The White Paper cites a COPASIR (2022) ratio indicating that investment effectiveness in R&D for armaments between the European Union and the United States is one to ten.
IRIS² is a multiorbit secure communications constellation of the European Union with deployment planned in the coming years.
The European Union has begun operations of Govsatcom, its governmental satellite communications program.
Govsatcom is one of the five components of the European Union Space Programme alongside Galileo, Copernicus, EGNOS, and the Space Situational Awareness Program.
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) awarded a 2024 contract to GMV, leading a European industrial consortium, to design, develop, and deploy the Govsatcom Hub.
The Govsatcom Hub is prepared to integrate future services from IRIS², the European Union’s planned multi-orbit secure communications constellation.