Iris, sponsored by the International Space Station National Laboratory and part of the Canadian CubeSat Project led by the Canadian Space Agency, observes weathering of geological samples exposed to solar and cosmic radiation.
Iris is an air traffic modernization program developed by the European Space Agency with Inmarsat.
ESSP will operate and provision the Iris service and will lead Iris service commercialization to European Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs).
Iris Global aims to expand Iris coverage to Asia, the USA, the Middle East, and Australia and to add new ICAO aviation standards and satellite-based communication solutions for future ATM of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS).
Iris uses Viasat’s SwiftBroadband-Safety (SB-S) connectivity platform.
The Iris capability will be initially rolled out on four ITA Airways Airbus A320neo aircraft.
Thales Alenia Space signed an 88-million-euro contract with Airbus to develop two flight-ready IRIS instruments for the CRISTAL mission.
GHGSat Inc. awarded SFL the development contracts for GHGSat-C1 ("Iris") and GHGSat-C2 ("Hugo") after SFL built and launched the pathfinding GHGSat-D ("Claire") atmospheric monitoring smallsat in 2016.
With the support of leading Air Navigation Service Providers, easyJet will evaluate Iris’ capabilities on up to 11 Airbus A320neo aircraft beginning in November 2022.
Descartes Labs Government plans to release Retina, WayFinder, and Iris at the GEOINT Symposium 2024.
The commercial phase of Iris will begin in 2026 with onboarding 28 air navigation service providers (ANSPs) supporting more than 1,100 Iris-capable aircraft in Europe.