Nato holds the commercial space sector

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It is worth noting that NATO is recognized as the last of five “operational” fields, along with air, land, marine space and electronic space Once again in 2019. Two years later, I concluded that the attacks to, from or inside space can pose a threat to the alliance and lead to the fact that Article 5 is notorious that determines an attack on one member as an attack on everyone. By entering the beautiful printing, the military alliance is expected to deploy the new area of ​​2026.

Whether the allies – especially the hesitant Spain – can or those who will achieve a 5 % target in the air. Take a look at NATO numbersOnly Poland approached the allocation of a slice of GDP for defense purposes last year, by 4.12 %, while Washington itself has only 3.38 % of its economic production for this purpose. In all areas, there is a floor for coverage. In Europe, writing on the wall was a few months, after the European Union Bloc of 27 members proposed to fill 800 billion euros (936 billion dollars) for defensive spending in March, while Germany has relaxed financial debt rules to facilitate more security purchases. The United Kingdom began a pledge to implement the defense expenditures for 2.5 % by April 2027, and Prime Minister Kiir Starmer since then Pledge The target of 5 % will reach 2035.

Communication, navigation and monitoring are clear uses of space capabilities in defense, and this before you think about taking war to the stars. Trump’s ambitious golden defense shield – whose administration is winning at $ 75 billion, but some observers will cost several times – has already like Boeing, Lucheid Martin and even European players competing for a piece of budget. Recently, Planet Labs has captured the satellite photo provider on a seven -digit contract to provide monitoring and intelligence capabilities to NATO itself.

This is the state of play between defensive space companies before reconsidering the controversial topic about whether the stars can be evacuated from Elon Musk successfully from Ukraine, where access to Internet data and communication for both residential and military purposes have been facilitated. The Russian bombing destroyed local mobile networks during its conquest for three years, which made the satellite communication services from a third party indispensable-but the previously documented Musk relationship with Trump, whose support for Kyiv was liquid, raised concerns in Europe on Starlink in the long run. It remains to see whether the president and billionaire of technology is a billionaire visceral will erase these concerns among European leaders, who are largely in KYIV’s support for a long time.

The last time we heard, Europe was still following an alternative hero of satellites to prove the overwhelming dependence on Starlink in Ukraine. Eutelsat’s France, which already supports government and institutional COMMS in the besieged country of Eastern Europe, takes advantage of this project. Since the merger with oneweb for Britain in 2023, the French company imagines more than 650 OneWeb satellite in the low Earth orbit (Leo), along with more than 30 geological satellites.

The company gained a nice vote on confidence last week, when it announced a 1.35 billion euros-led capital, led by the French government-which will become the largest shareholder in the company with a share of 29.99 %-and other investors, in an attempt to enhance its capabilities on Liu. The shares increased by 31 % as a result, as the gains that were recorded after preliminary speculation were recorded that they could be included in Starlink shoes in Ukraine. This is a beautiful bump of its lowest level in late February in the days after the report of the weakest half -year profit is expected through the most soft broadcast sales and costs of the company.

These types of private sector players are not officially considered a margin of NATO. Only this week, the alliance issued the first at all Commercial space strategyEmphasizing three goals – benefiting from commercial solutions, ensuring continuous access during peace, crisis or conflict and enhancing coherent relations with the commercial sector. The final game, ultimately, is to “help commercial partners to better understand NATO needs, invest and meet the necessary security measures, including for cybersecurity, and expand manufacturing capabilities” – many steps less than NATO who gets their space arsenal, but still as a possible blessing for private companies that deal with individual members governments.

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