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France has ordered two IRIS military optical satellites from Airbus and Thales Alenia Space in a deal worth over €1.5 billion. They will replace the CSO fleet, image targets on the ground and in orbit, and keep Europe's main sovereign spy-satellite capability running past 2035.
Read the story →CRISTAL, Europe's next polar ice altimetry satellite, is fully assembled, has passed its first solar-array deployment and launch-adapter checks, and moves to ESA's Netherlands site for a year of environmental testing ahead of a late-2027 to early-2028 launch.
Germany's OHB landed a nearly €1 billion SES contract to build all 18 IRIS² medium-Earth-orbit satellites, the first hardware award since the EU's sovereign connectivity program signed its implementation agreement in early August.
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