{"id":103037,"date":"2025-10-27T06:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103037\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T06:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:52:07","slug":"europe-defense-firms-team-up-to-rival-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103037\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe defense firms team up to rival Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three European aerospace and defense giants announced a partnership to rival Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink satellite internet network.<\/p>\n<p>Europe has been hungry for a homegrown alternative to Starlink, which dominates the sector \u2014 the service has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-stuck-with-elon-musk-starlink-satellite-internet\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">vital to Ukrainian troops<\/a> in the war against Russia, and fears of a possible shutdown accelerated Europe\u2019s space ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said in June that space \u201chas in some way become a gauge of international power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new partnership between Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales is \u201cthe first tangible evidence of Europe addressing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/10\/23\/airbus-thales-leonardo-announce-space-merger-to-rival-musks-starlink.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">its waning technological sovereignty<\/a> since the start of the second Trump administration,\u201d one analyst told CNBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three European aerospace and defense giants announced a partnership to rival Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink satellite internet network. Europe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-103037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}