>These efforts are all part of plans to reduce the EU’s dependence on foreign space services, such as Starlink, which is owned by Elon Musk. They also go hand-in-hand with the EU’s efforts to bolster the bloc’s defence capabilities and readiness
Yup.
Front_Promise_5991 on
He kind of suits there. Ofc we don’t know what his colleagues are thinking
panchiramaster on
But keep feeding the US bogus intel for kicks.
IamXiJingPing on
They didn’t have one? That’s so strange…….
No_Method5989 on
Please also do social media guys. I might be rough on you EU peeps it’s all love and potential. You guys with the help of other can stabilize the world again.
MystikTrailblazer on
I hope the EU doesn’t find itself on a similar oligarchy path as the US is in, and with its own Elon Musk type of BS in a few years.
And God I hope the US (my country) can get a good portion of its population’s head out of their 🫏 and course correct, including strengthening institutions to prevent another tyrannical administration from taking over, while clipping the wings of oligarchs like Musk.
windflex on
But the US has Signal!!
busterghost65 on
They also want chat control and back doors to encrypted messaging apps, etc.. So good for the government but not for the citizens.
blackcoffee17 on
EU needs a Starlink competitor.
macross1984 on
Another step forward for EU to wean itself away from US dependence.
Good.
KE55 on
No doubt the current US administration will whine about “national security” and demand access.
joepublicschmoe on
For those who are not well-versed with how satellite communications works, this EU system is the old traditional geosynchronous satellites, where the commsat is in an orbit that goes around the Earth once per day, so the satellite appears to be in a fixed spot in the sky.
This traditional commsat system’s biggest limitation is the latency (the lag). Because geostationary orbit is VERY far away at 35,786km, it takes over a second for a radio signal to travel from the sender to the satellite then to the receiver.
Starlink is the newer low-earth-orbit satcom technology where the satellite is just 500km away, so the signal from sender to satellite to receiver is near-instantaneous. The tradeoff is that you need a lot of satellites (thousands) to make this work, since low-earth orbit satellites pass overhead in minutes rather than stay fixed in a spot in the sky.
Europe badly needs a sovereign LEO broadband satellite network. But unfortunately they don’t have the means to deploy thousands of satellites inexpensively to make this happen– To do that, Europe needs a reusable orbital rocket like the Falcon 9 SpaceX used to deploy Starlink, but Europe has been shortsighted in dismissing reusable rockets and instead spent a few billion euros to develop the non-reusable Ariane 6.
The EU proposed a sovereign LEO broadband network called IRIS^2 but absent a low-cost reusable rocket system to deploy it, it might be a decade or decades before that network becomes reality.
Inevitable_Fuel7244 on
Can Canada join?
Notgreygoddess on
We in Canada need to move in this pronto.
imaginary_num6er on
Wouldn’t Hungary just share it with Russia, China, and the U.S.?
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>These efforts are all part of plans to reduce the EU’s dependence on foreign space services, such as Starlink, which is owned by Elon Musk. They also go hand-in-hand with the EU’s efforts to bolster the bloc’s defence capabilities and readiness
Yup.
He kind of suits there. Ofc we don’t know what his colleagues are thinking
But keep feeding the US bogus intel for kicks.
They didn’t have one? That’s so strange…….
Please also do social media guys. I might be rough on you EU peeps it’s all love and potential. You guys with the help of other can stabilize the world again.
I hope the EU doesn’t find itself on a similar oligarchy path as the US is in, and with its own Elon Musk type of BS in a few years.
And God I hope the US (my country) can get a good portion of its population’s head out of their 🫏 and course correct, including strengthening institutions to prevent another tyrannical administration from taking over, while clipping the wings of oligarchs like Musk.
But the US has Signal!!
They also want chat control and back doors to encrypted messaging apps, etc.. So good for the government but not for the citizens.
EU needs a Starlink competitor.
Another step forward for EU to wean itself away from US dependence.
Good.
No doubt the current US administration will whine about “national security” and demand access.
For those who are not well-versed with how satellite communications works, this EU system is the old traditional geosynchronous satellites, where the commsat is in an orbit that goes around the Earth once per day, so the satellite appears to be in a fixed spot in the sky.
This traditional commsat system’s biggest limitation is the latency (the lag). Because geostationary orbit is VERY far away at 35,786km, it takes over a second for a radio signal to travel from the sender to the satellite then to the receiver.
Starlink is the newer low-earth-orbit satcom technology where the satellite is just 500km away, so the signal from sender to satellite to receiver is near-instantaneous. The tradeoff is that you need a lot of satellites (thousands) to make this work, since low-earth orbit satellites pass overhead in minutes rather than stay fixed in a spot in the sky.
Europe badly needs a sovereign LEO broadband satellite network. But unfortunately they don’t have the means to deploy thousands of satellites inexpensively to make this happen– To do that, Europe needs a reusable orbital rocket like the Falcon 9 SpaceX used to deploy Starlink, but Europe has been shortsighted in dismissing reusable rockets and instead spent a few billion euros to develop the non-reusable Ariane 6.
The EU proposed a sovereign LEO broadband network called IRIS^2 but absent a low-cost reusable rocket system to deploy it, it might be a decade or decades before that network becomes reality.
Can Canada join?
We in Canada need to move in this pronto.
Wouldn’t Hungary just share it with Russia, China, and the U.S.?