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News: The European Union has launched an ambitious Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS2) space programme, its third major space infrastructure project, to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink.
About IRIS2
- It is the European Union’s third flagship satellite programme, after Galileo Navigation System and Copernicus.
- Galileo is a civilian satellite navigation system while Copernicus is the world’s largest Earth Observation Programme.
- The European Space Agency has played a key role in the development of the programme.
- It has a constellation of 290 satellites, operating in medium and low earth orbit.
- It aims to provide secure, resilient and high-speed connectivity in areas where network connectivity is low or unavailable.
- It supports a large variety of governmental applications in the domains of surveillance, crisis management, security and defence etc.
