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>> The EU is even building their own Starlink equivalent. > No they aren’t. That’s exactly what IRIS [0] is though… [0] https://defence-industry-space.ec.eur

• kortilla 4mo ago
  IRIS is a 290 sat constellation that doesn’t have any proven sats in orbit or a user terminal. The capacity even if they deliver what they claim on paper is not a Starlink equivalent. The tyranny of being in MEO/LEO is that your sats are not overhead at least half of the time. Lower capacity, higher latency, and worse coverage makes it more of a viasat improvement than anything like a starlink equivalent. They fumbled by not trying to provide global coverage.