The European Union announced the IRIS² program in 2022, citing a need to create a sovereign, independent satellite broadband constellation so Europe isn't beholden to foreign networks.

The Intelsat 33e satellite, which was launched in 2016 and provides communications across Europe, Asia and Africa, experienced "an anomaly" on Saturday, Intelsat said in a news release.

Boeing’s bad year in space continues. Following the troubled first crewed flight of its Starliner spacecraft, now a satellite designed and built by the company appears to have exploded in orbit.

The EU already operates the Galileo navigation satellite system, as well as the Copernicus Earth-observation program. About Rudy Ruitenberg Rudy Ruitenberg is a Europe correspondent for Defense News.

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