What Happened
French Defence Procurement Agency Awards Contract for High-Resolution Earth Observation
The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has awarded the contract for the IRIS programme to Airbus Defence and Space and co-contractor Thales Alenia Space. The IRIS programme represents the next generation of extremely high-resolution Earth observation satellites for the French Armed Forces, with a contract value of over €1.5 billion. The programme aims to ensure the continuity of France’s operational image-origin intelligence capability from space, with improved performance and lower latency. This development was first reported by EDR Magazine.