ESA governments, including Germany, back Iris2 tech investment funding at ESA ministerial

BREMEN, Germany — European Space Agency (ESA) governments have agreed to support the agency’s continued contributions to the European Commission’s Iris2 multi-orbit secure communications constellation despite worries that Germany’s military might build a similar multibillion-euro broadband architecture of its own.

Meeting here Nov. 26-27 for ESA’s triennial ministerial conference, CM25, ESA governments, led by France but including Germany and a sizable Spanish subscription, agreed to more than 900 million euros ($1.04 billion) in combinations to the two slices of what ESA calls “ESA Program . . .

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