L’Italia pianifica un accordo da 1,5 miliardi di dollari con SpaceX per i servizi di sicurezza delle telecomunicazioni
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-05/italy-plans-1-5-billion-spacex-telecom-security-services-deal
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“Trump Hails Italy’s Far-Right Italian PM as ‘Fantastic Woman’ During Surprise Mar-a-Lago Visit”
So that’s why Meloni met with Trump
Italy hands over security of its government communications to american billionaire. What could possibly go wrong?
Curious way to benefit the aerospace industry in your country.
Nothing says secure service like having an unhinged owner. Wonder what other countries will try and buy musk’s silence
In 2016 the Italian government started a space program called Ital-GovSatCom. Based on long time strengths of the Italian space industry like the development and construction of small satellites, and the operation of the small satellite launcher Vega, the Italian government wanted to start its own satellite constellation as a leadership contribution on what would become the joint EU GovSatCom program, which was later based on the future IRIS^2 constellation as well as other technologies.
The years passed, and nobody has heard anything concrete about Ital-GovSatCom since the Meloni government took office in Italy. In all of these years surely Italy could have built and launched at least something like demonstrators or small constellations, instead the IRIS^2 tender has come and gone, leaving Ital-GovSatCom without one of its purposes; this piece of news added to the puzzle makes Ital-GovSatCom all but dead.
Since Meloni has took office we have already caught wind of two distinct secret negotiations involving Starlink: first possibly re-routing towards Starlink part of the billions (some of which come from the NGEU fund) to be used to increase the optical fiber and FWA broadband coverage in the Italian areas where ISPs haven’t brought any access, and now about a big contract for Starlink to provide secure telecommunications to the government in a five-year contract (even if the EU GovSatCom capability is projected to become fully operational well before 2030).
BTW: regarding negotiations for a Starlink deal with the Italian armed forces there is an ongoing investigation for a member of the Italian Navy, an Italian government-owned software company and the Italian representative of Musk, dealing with the accusations of corruption and sharing classified documents with unauthorised people.
Trump is not even in office and the EU is bowing down on all fronts. What a disgusting display of cowardice by our weak and pathetic leaders. “Yes we will buy more fossils from you in our strategic point of weakness” “Yes we will use your kingmakers services in our critically important infrastructure”. Europe does not deserve it better the way it acts. What a joke.
Frankly anything with Musk stain on it should be excluded from any sensistive EU communications / networks. No difference than having China in your network really.
Did she get a pony?
SpaceX is the most cost-effective space agency. Not everything has to be based on political gossips
Based. It’s great technology.
We all know what happens to the service when Russia commands Elmo to shut it down. You can ask Ukraine.
Wouldn’t it be safer to have have contract with https://oneweb.net from French https://www.eutelsat.com/?
Why do they need to rely on an unreliable US based billionaire?
What could possible go wrong
Everyone here crying about Italy ensuring it will receive favorable terms and relations with the largest economy on earth and receive a superior telecoms product than the European alternative…ok lol.
Pick your needless fights with Musk and Trump, see how far that gets you beyond ratios on Bluesky. Meanwhile Italy and the UK will likely ride through this seamlessly
This seems like the kind of thing that individual EU members should not be able to make without the consent of the others. Security deal with a company that is lead by a dude that openly has ties with the kremlin?! Insane.
Any deal with Musk is a bad one and a security risk.
Great news for Italy
…..Italy has 1,5 billion dollars??
They’re going with SpaceX because SpaceX are the cheapest, most reliable space agency. They’re offering the best deal by a mile and are leaving the competition in the dust.
They would have gone with a European space agency if Europe’s space industry wasn’t dogshit in comparison.
Europe needs to step up its game.
But anything elon does is bad.. yea he is a massive douche but he has some of the most advanced tech in the world and his Twitter rants have nothing to do with how well spacex do their shit.
Are we rational or emotional