Europe’s ambitious satellite Internet project appears to be running into trouble

Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton wants Europe to have its own secure satellite communications network. (credit: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

It has been 18 months since the European Union announced its intent to develop an independent satellite Internet constellation, and the plans appear to be heading into troubled waters.

In that time, a single bid—from a consortium of multinational companies that includes Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space...