Avio confirmed Giorgio Martellino as information contact and secretary of the Board of Directors.

Avio's shareholders approved the first section of the remuneration policy report with about 97% of the capital voting in favor.

Avio appointed Giulio Ranzo, Stefano Ratti, Stefania Tomassi, Laura Pierallini, Heidi Shyu, Maria Elena Pisonero Ruiz, Raffaele Cappiello, and Steven Duncan Wood as board members.

Koen Willems is Vice President of EU/NATO Programs and Government Relations at ST Engineering iDirect Europe.

The European Protected Waveform demonstrated resistance to jamming and cyberattacks across GEO and LEO orbits during testing at the Universität der Bundeswehr München.

IRIS² is the EU’s €10.6 billion sovereign connectivity constellation and Europe’s third space flagship after Galileo and Copernicus.

ST Engineering iDirect won a Satcoms Innovation Group Cooperation of the Year Award with G&S SatCom in March 2026 for unified network and service management built on Intuition.

The European Protected Waveform is a €65 million European Defence Fund project divided into two phases.

ST Engineering acquired Newtec in 2019 and renamed the Belgian satcom equipment company ST Engineering iDirect Europe.

Phase 2 of the European Protected Waveform launched in May 2025 with €35 million in EDF funding for prototyping and integrating the system.

ST Engineering iDirect has a joint SATCOM demonstration lab with Black Cat Systems for the Australian Defence Force.

The SpaceRISE consortium of Eutelsat, SES, and Hispasat holds a 12-year concession to build and operate IRIS².

Intuition is ST Engineering iDirect’s cloud-native multi-orbit ground system.

Raytheon selected ST Engineering iDirect’s manufacturing plant in Erpe-Mere, Belgium, for NATO’s ESSM Block II missile program in February 2026.

Koen Willems completed High Studies in Security and Defence at the Belgian Royal Higher Institute for Defence, the European Session for Armament Officials at the French National Institute of Higher Defence in Paris, and the European Advanced Strategy Course at the Egmont Institute.

Koen Willems holds master’s degrees in English and Scandinavian Languages from Ghent University and in marketing strategy from Vlekho Business School in Brussels.

On November 26–27, 2025, the European Protected Waveform consortium completed over-the-air testing at the Universität der Bundeswehr München.

ST Engineering iDirect Europe is headquartered in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.

IRIS² will put roughly 290 satellites into orbit across LEO and MEO.

The European Protected Waveform is intended for use beyond IRIS² as a general European protected standard.

Full governmental services for IRIS² are expected by 2030.

ST Engineering iDirect Europe leads a consortium of 22 organizations from 12 EU member states for the European Protected Waveform under the authority of Belgium’s Ministry of Defence.

Phase 1 of the European Protected Waveform allocated €30 million to establish the architecture.

Francesco Milazzo is Head of the 5th Department of the Italian Navy General Staff.

Francesco Cupertino is a professor at the Polytechnic University of Bari and the CRUI representative under the ASI/CRUI/MUR framework agreement.

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) is co-organizing the Space and Blue workshop with Confitarma and the Istituto Italiano di Navigazione.

The Space and Blue workshop will include Luca Sisto, Elda Turco Bulgherini, Francesco Milazzo, Sergio Liardo, and Luca Vincenzo Maria Salamone among its participants.

Sergio Liardo is Commander General of the Italian Coast Guard Corps.

Antonello Testa coordinates OsserMare, the national observatory on the maritime economy of the chamber system, and the Space&Blue observatory.

Marcello Spagnulo is an expert for PMO-PNRR in the Digital Transformation Department of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Luca Sisto is President of the Istituto Italiano di Navigazione and General Director of Confitarma.

The Space and Blue initiative is part of ASI’s effort to strengthen dialogue among the scientific community, industry, and institutions.

Ezio Bussoletti is President of e-Geos and Executive Master in Space Economy Director at Luiss Business School.

The Space and Blue call is promoted under the ASI–MIMIT agreement to support Space Economy initiatives.

The Space and Blue initiative aims to promote projects and technologies spanning the space and maritime domains.

Roberta Busatto will moderate the Space and Blue workshop.

Elda Turco Bulgherini is Vice President of ASI.

Maria Libera Battagliere will present the ASI Space&Blue call for proposals at the workshop.

Paolo Valente is Director of INFN and the MUR representative under the ASI/CRUI/MUR framework agreement.

Luca Vincenzo Maria Salamone is Director General of ASI.

Paolo Casalino is a director in the Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy’s general directorate for industrial policy, industrial conversion and crisis, innovation, SMEs, and Made in Italy.

ASI will present a multi-topic call for proposals on the Space and Blue inter-domain at the workshop.

CNES supported Skynopy through technology development contracts focused on Ka-band for ground station-as-a-service solutions.

The Skynopy-CNES partnership aims to optimize frequency allocation for Skynopy-operated ground stations in France.

Skynopy has signed a partnership deal with the French Space Agency (CNES).

CNES will support Skynopy in frequency declaration and allocation processes with the French National Frequency Agency (ANFR) when Skynopy deploys antennas in France.

CNES has backed Skynopy since the company’s inception in 2023.

CNES is a shareholder in Skynopy through the SpaceFounders program, which CNES created with the Bundeswehr University of Munich and the Italian Space Agency.

Amazon designates the Amazon LEO satellite network as LE-02, or Leo Europe 02.

The European Space Agency launched an Ariane 6 in Ariane 64 configuration from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on Thursday morning, April 30.