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The initiative comes as European policymakers face mounting pressure to establish greater control over communications infrastructure considered essential to national security, economic resilience and military operations.
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Europe’s reliance on U.S. satellite services has become particularly sensitive following reported disruptions affecting satellite communications used by Ukraine. …
European satellite operators, including Eutelsat and SES, are increasingly viewed as important participants in the continent’s efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign communications networks.
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This is exactly what I’ve been thinking about the whole satellite internet constellations that are getting launched. If governments required interoperability and open access to any network of…say 10 or more satellites we wouldn’t have 3 or 4 or 5 incompatible swarms of thousands of satellites crowding low earth orbit and threatening kessler syndrome. We could setup one global satellite internet solution and have competition on the ground for who your connection goes through while it all operates on shared infrastructure.
And instead of taking an approach to actually help fix the problem the EU is just making it worse by encouraging yet another incompatible constellation of hundreds or thousands of satellites to make LEO even more crowded?!
Ideally Europe would have a single constellation, but if not possible right now I at least hope they make interoperable. We can’t be expected to conform with American\billionaire standards, and that has never been the case.