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Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2026-03-18

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: SA Mathieson

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The UK Ministry of Defence plans to invest £17.5 million in Noctis-2, a remotely-operated electro-optical satellite monitoring array to be sited in Cyprus, improving persistent geostationary and low-Earth orbit surveillance to protect assets including Skynet secure communications; the project builds on a prior Noctis-1 telescope contract and aims to address a stated capability gap in space monitoring.

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