{"id":320620,"date":"2024-12-20T18:38:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=320620"},"modified":"2024-12-20T18:38:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:08:54","slug":"iris2-space-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iris2-space-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"IRIS2 Space Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> 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\u2019s Starlink.<\/p>\n<h2>About IRIS2<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_320621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320621\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-320621\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IRIS2.png?resize=300%2C209&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IRIS2\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IRIS2.png?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IRIS2.png?resize=768%2C536&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IRIS2.png?w=793&amp;ssl=1 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-320621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- European Commission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the European Union\u2019s<em><strong> third flagship satellite programme<\/strong><\/em>, after Galileo Navigation System and Copernicus.\n<ul>\n<li>Galileo is a civilian satellite navigation system while Copernicus is the world\u2019s largest Earth Observation Programme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong><em>European Space Agency<\/em><\/strong> has played a key role in the development of the programme.<\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong><em>constellation of 290 satellites<\/em><\/strong>, operating in medium and low earth orbit.<\/li>\n<li>It <em><strong>aims<\/strong><\/em> to provide secure, resilient and high-speed connectivity in areas where network connectivity is low or unavailable.<\/li>\n<li>It supports a large variety of governmental applications in the domains of surveillance, crisis management, security and defence etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Starlink. About IRIS2 It is the European Union\u2019s third flagship satellite programme, after Galileo Navigation System and Copernicus. Galileo is a civilian satellite navigation system while&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iris2-space-programme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IRIS2 Space Programme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-320620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}