NATO allies pledge $1 billion to promote sharing of space-based intel

Enlarge / Heads of state pose for a group photo at an event Tuesday celebrating the 75th anniversary of NATO.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

During their summit in Washington, DC, this week, NATO member states committed more than $1 billion to improve the sharing of intelligence from national and commercial reconnaissance satellites.

The agreement is a further step toward integrating space assets into NATO military commands. It follows the bloc’s adoption of an official space policy in 2019, which recognized space as a fifth war-fighting domain alongside air, land, maritime, and cyberspace. The next step was the formation of the NATO Space Operations

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