The European Commission selected SpaceRISE, a consortium of European satellite companies SES, Eutelsat and Hispasat, to build and operate the planned 290-satellite IRIS 2 network. The 10.6 billion euros ($11.5 billion) IRIS [infrastructure for resilience, interconnectivity and security by satellite] constellation was a “long time coming,” Thomas Sinn, founder and chief executive at Munich-based space […]