Europe's answer to Starlink? Airbus, Thales and Leonardo have agreed on a satellite merger
The three companies have reportedly reached a framework agreement that will allow them to create "Project Bromo", a satellite production company to compete with rivals in China and the United States, especially Starlink, Elon Musk's company, according to Euronews.
Euronews Next is working to independently verify the Reuters report.
A report on their proposed satellite company emerged last year, when officials told Reuters that a new company would combine satellite assets, rather than one partner buying assets from the rest.
Starlink is being used across Europe, in places like Ukraine, where an estimated 50,000 terminals are being used to keep the country's railways, schools, and hospitals connected to the internet in the event of a power outage.
The country's leading telecommunications company also signed an agreement with the company earlier this year to begin testing direct satellite-to-mobile service.
Other companies are also working to compete with Starlink, such as Eutelsat, which recently received a 1.35 billion euro capital injection from the French government, according to French newspaper Le Monde.
The European Space Agency is also working on a megaconstellation with Thales, called the High-throughput Digital and Optical Network (HydRON) project, in which satellites will transmit laser signals between themselves and several ground-based optical networks to provide internet speeds of up to one terabyte per second.
Source: www.mediafax.ro
