Germany has broken ground on a GOVSATCOM Hub facility in Cologne, with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia committing to investing up to €50 million in the project. The facility is one of two planned facilities, with the other to be in Greece.

The European GOVSATCOM project officially became operational in January 2026.

The GOVSATCOM Hub is a secure platform that connects government users with pooled satellite communications capacity. While GOVSATCOM is already operational, pooling capacity from eight existing satellites provided by five countries, two dedicated physical sites are being constructed “in order to mitigate risks to service continuity.”

The German aerospace agency DLR announced on June 16 that construction had begun on its GOVSATCOM Hub site, which will be located on the grounds of the agency’s Cologne facility. According to the government of North Rhine-Westphalia, the state in which Cologne is located, the project is being funded by both the state and federal government. While it did not disclose the federal government’s contribution, it said North Rhine-Westphalia would invest up to €50 million in the project.

GOVSATCOM also serves as a precursor to the planned IRIS2 constellation.

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