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When NATO leaders meet July 9-11, space is firmly on the agenda as allies work to build up a stronger collective infrastructure for coordination, and key European space players hasten to develop new capabilities.

“One of the NATO priorities for the summit will be space,” Allied Command Transformation (ACT) said in a May 29 fact sheet.

In the run up to the summit, NATO on June 12-13 held its second NATO Space Operations Commanders’ Conference at Allied Air Command headquarters at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Officials from 23 NATO nations attended, as well as close US allies Australia and Japan.

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