visible beneficiaries<\/a>, selling at least eight radar satellites this year to European countries seeking a sovereign space capability.<\/p>\n\u201cSovereign monitoring, intelligence, and targeting are fundamental to credible deterrence,\u201d Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace President Eirik Lie said in the statement. \u201cCommunication, oversight and connectivity are key to operate defense assets effectively, and Europe needs full control over these capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cooperation is a response to Europe\u2019s greater need for deterrence and addresses the strategic issue of space-based intelligence, Kongsberg and Helsing said, with the companies citing \u201ckey lessons from recent geopolitical events.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kongsberg wasn\u2019t immediately able to answer questions on the required investment or how many satellites are planned for the constellation, which countries the partnership is targeting, or who would own the satellites.<\/p>\n
The teaming agreement combines Kongsberg\u2019s satellites with Helsing\u2019s artificial-intelligence capabilities, pulling together synthetic aperture radar, electro-optical and radio-frequency data for satellite-image analysis, they said. The companies said they have operational experience in Ukraine, with Helsing AI algorithms used there as well as deployed in orbit for data analysis.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe war in Ukraine demonstrates that most reliable targeting begins in space,\u201d Helsing co-Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Gundbert Scherf said. \u201cTogether with Kongsberg, we will provide crucial integrated space defense systems to ensure Europe wins the fight for sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hensoldt will provide SAR, electro-optical\/infrared and electronic warfare sensors, while Kongsberg Satellite Services will contribute with its ground network to communicate with satellites.<\/p>\n
The cooperation will include setting up local satellite production in Germany to create \u201ca self-reliant European defense capability,\u201d the companies said.<\/p>\n
With Norway\u2019s satellite expertise and Hensoldt\u2019s sensors, \u201cwe can build a resilient space architecture that gives Europe the information advantage it needs,\u201d Hensoldt Chief Executive Officer Oliver D\u00f6rre said. \u201cEurope\u2019s security depends on sovereign sensing and intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rudy Ruitenberg is a Europe correspondent for Defense News. He started his career at Bloomberg News and has experience reporting on technology, commodity markets and politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014 Norway\u2019s Kongsberg and Germany\u2019s Helsing are teaming up to provide Europe with a sovereign satellite constellation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[17493,17492,8555,17494,17491,1223,113834,113835,111,139,5895,69,16610,147,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-177904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-circulated-c4isrnet","9":"tag-circulated-defense-news","10":"tag-communications","11":"tag-defense-news","12":"tag-dn-dnr","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-helsing","15":"tag-kongsberg","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-norway","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-satellites","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177904","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=177904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}