{"id":181621,"date":"2024-01-28T22:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T04:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/ses-eutelsat-hispasat-why-were-investing-in-europes-iris2-constellation-starlink-kuiper-are-problems-for-us"},"modified":"2024-01-28T22:26:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T04:26:57","slug":"ses-eutelsat-hispasat-why-were-investing-in-europes-iris2-constellation-starlink-kuiper-are-problems-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/ses-eutelsat-hispasat-why-were-investing-in-europes-iris2-constellation-starlink-kuiper-are-problems-for-us","title":{"rendered":"SES, Eutelsat, Hispasat: Why we\u2019re investing in Europe\u2019s Iris2 constellation; Starlink &amp; Kuiper are problems for us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ses-eutelsat-hispasat-why-were-investing-in-europes-iris2-constellation-starlink-kuiper-are-problems-for-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BRUSSELS \u2014 Three of Europe\u2019s biggest satellite fleet operators \u2014 <strong>SES<\/strong>, <strong>Eutelsat<\/strong> and <strong>Hispasat<\/strong> \u2014 explained why they are investing in the <strong>European Commission<\/strong>\u2019s Iris2 multi-orbit satellite constellation, designed as a public-private partnership with the Commission and the 22-nation <strong>European Space Agency (ESA)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks before their SpaceRise consortium\u2019s best-and-final bid is due, these companies said Iris2 gives them part ownership in a global medium-and low-Earth-orbit network whose capex is mainly government funded.<\/p>\n<p>To view the entire article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceintelreport.com\/subscribe-to-space-intel-report\/\">become a subscriber<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS \u2014 Three of Europe\u2019s biggest satellite fleet operators \u2014 SES, Eutelsat and Hispasat \u2014 explained why they are investing in the European Commission\u2019s Iris2 multi-orbit satellite constellation, designed as a public-private partnership with the Commission and the 22-nation European Space Agency (ESA). Three weeks before their SpaceRise consortium\u2019s best-and-final bid is due, these companies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}