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EU’s IRIS² satellite plan runs into mega complications against SpaceX’s Starlink
Both Airbus and Thales Alenia Space are moving to pull out of the SpaceRise consortium they helped found. | Lionel Bonaventure/Getty Images That would allow contracts to be signed in the first half of October, just weeks before the end of the current …