{"id":465326,"date":"2026-09-17T16:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/09\/17\/ue-e-corea-del-sud-firmano-lintesa-sui-satelliti-verso-una-cooperazione-su-iris%c2%b2\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T17:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:10:38","slug":"eu-and-south-korea-sign-satellite-agreement-towards-cooperation-on-iris%c2%b2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/09\/17\/eu-and-south-korea-sign-satellite-agreement-towards-cooperation-on-iris%c2%b2\/","title":{"rendered":"EU and South Korea sign satellite agreement: towards cooperation on IRIS\u00b2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The EU and South Korea deepen cooperation on secure satellite connectivity<\/a> and have opened the door to the possibility of Seoul\u2019s future integration into IRIS\u00b2, the European constellation for secure satellite communications. The agreement was signed today (17 September) by the European Commissioner for Defence and Space, Andrius Kubilius, and the South Korean Deputy Minister for the Advanced Capabilities Programme, Giyoung Jeoung<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The agreement establishes a working group tasked with exchanging information on existing and future secure connectivity programmes, identifying possible joint applications and assessing technical solutions for system-level cooperation with IRIS\u00b2. For South Korea, the collaboration could open up access to the European programme\u2019s architecture, while the EU\u2019s space industry could benefit from South Korean industrial expertise. <\/p>\n

The working group will include the European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the South Korean authorities, including the Defense Acquisition Program Administration<\/a> and the Agency for Defense Development<\/a>, alongside other national agencies and authorities. <\/p>\n

The first phase of IRIS\u00b2 is expected to be launched by the end of 2029.<\/strong> In August 2026, negotiations on the programme\u2019s governance, technical framework, and funding were concluded, confirming the system\u2019s architecture and identifying the main suppliers. IRIS\u00b2 is designed to provide the EU with an \u201cautonomous and secure satellite communications capability, for the benefit of governments, critical infrastructure and other institutional users.\u201d<\/p>\n

 Cooperation with third countries is governed by international treaties: to date, the EU has concluded such treaties with Norway and Iceland.<\/strong> The agreement with Seoul therefore represents a further step towards expanding international cooperation around the European constellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The EU and South Korea deepen cooperation on secure satellite connectivity and have opened the door to the possibility of Seoul\u2019s future integration into IRIS\u00b2, the European constellation for secure satellite communications. The agreement was signed today (17 September) by the European Commissioner for Defence and Space, Andrius Kubilius, and the South Korean Deputy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":438694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774,25710],"tags":[29924,32460,30000,35749,34983,26513],"class_list":["post-465326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-brief","category-net-tech-en","tag-andrius-kubilius-en","tag-comunicazioni","tag-connectivity-en","tag-connettivita-satellitare","tag-iris","tag-satellite-in"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465327,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465326\/revisions\/465327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}