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IRIS2 will include 10 low-orbiting satellites operating at 400–750 km targeted at new industries and start-ups, and these will be paid for by the EU.
IRIS² will interoperate with Govsatcom, an EU program that provides communications services using geostationary satellites operated by member states.
The National Satellite Space Project is part of the EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Facility plans for Greece.
GNSS systems, such as the U.S.’s Global Positioning System and the EU’s Galileo, provide real-time navigation assistance.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced in 2023 that an EU Space Law focused on safety, resilience, and sustainability would be a priority for 2024.
Thirty-eight Galileo satellites have been developed and tested by ESA and European industry for the EU’s Galileo programme since its conception.
The EU switched to Falcon 9 for launching the Galileo satellites due to the retirement of the Ariane 5 and the loss of the Soyuz rocket.
ESA has indicated that they may launch Galileo satellites on Falcon 9 rockets, pending technical analyses and a security agreement with the EU.
The European Space Agency is leading efforts on behalf of the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance to expand Greece’s nascent space industry as part of the nation’s EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Facility.
Simon Kay, Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA), presented the EU climate law goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050.
The development of the EU space-based secure communication infrastructure is estimated to provide a gross value added of €17–24 billion to the EU economy and additional jobs in the EU space industry.
The EU space-based secure communication system will provide connectivity over geographical areas of strategic interest, including Africa and the Arctic, as part of the EU Global Gateway strategy.
The EDA GOVSATCOM Pooling and Sharing demonstration project was developed with 16 contributing Member States and funding from the EU’s Peace Facility, with its execution phase starting in 2019 and extended until 2025.
The EU and national actors involved in security activities require secure communication in situations where ground-based systems are unavailable.
EUMETSAT's expertise as an operational meteorological satellite agency positions it to deliver benefits from the Copernicus missions to EU citizens.
The four key pillars of skills, government, infrastructures, and business are part of Europe’s Digital Compass, which will translate the EU’s digital ambitions for 2030 into concrete terms.
Under Dr Josef Aschbacher’s leadership, Europe developed an Earth observation programme that includes all Sentinel missions as part of the EU-led Copernicus programme, all meteorological missions for EUMETSAT, and the Earth Explorer, Scout, and phi-sat missions developed for the ESA Member States.
The drone uses GPS signals from the United States, the Galileo systems of the EU, and Russia's GLONASS.
The draft regulation is intended to provide the European Commission with a budget to continue EU space projects such as EGNOS, Galileo, and Copernicus and to establish rules for the governance of the EU space program.
The European Commission proposed an overall budget of 16,000,000,000 EUR in current prices for the EU space programme for the period 2021–2027.