The Biggest Deal in NATO History: Something Spectacular Is Coming

Billion for space

At the NATO summit in Washington, member states pledged to invest more than $1 billion in space research.aimed at better knowing and understanding space.

NATO has previously drawn attention to the strategic importance of space in potential future armed conflicts. Alongside land, sea, and air combat, the Alliance sees threats related to cyberspace and space as elements of potential future conflicts for humanity.

During the meeting in Washington, NATO decided to create a new the “space” department, which is to deal with space research and reporting on technological innovations that may affect the security of the alliance’s member countries.

The war in Ukraine has already shown us the growing importance of and dependence on data that we are able to receive only from satellites.

– the NATO spokesman did not hide the fact.

The new investment will allow for much more

The new investment will allow the alliance to monitor even more precisely what is happening on the ground and at sea from space.. One of NATO’s smallest member states, Luxembourg, invested $18 million in a program called APSS back in 2023. The project’s goal was to better organize data received from satellites so that member states could access it when needed. Now the alliance will invest much more heavily in the development of space technologies.

Seventeen countries have committed more than $1 billion to the program, which will launch reconnaissance (but not spy) satellites and share information via cloud technologies.