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Speaking at NATO’s first Space Reverse Industry Day on Tuesday (20 February 2024), Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană highlighted the importance of cooperation with commercial space industry to ensure Alliance security. “This is not a job for NATO alone. It is something we must do together,” he said.

NATO is strengthening its partnership with the space industry

NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană highlighted the importance of cooperation with commercial space industry to ensure Alliance security.

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Supercomputers, artificial intelligence, and cloud are aboard a constellation of cyber-secure satellites orbiting the Earth this is the objective of the "Military Space Cloud Architecture" (MILSCA) study project assigned to Leonardo by the Italian Ministry of Defence (through the contractual agency Teledife), as part of the National Military Research Plan (PNRM).

Leonardo: kick off for the project of the first space cloud system for defence

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For the first time in Europe, the project intends to define a space architecture capable of providing government and national Armed Forces with high-performance computing and storage capacity directly in space.

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Ovzon has received the first order for the new Ovzon T7 mobile satellite terminal from the United States Department of Defence. The order will represent the first delivery of this industry-leading mobile satellite terminal.

U.S. Department of Defence orders the new Ovzon T7 mobile satellite terminal

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Ovzon has received the first order for the new Ovzon T7 mobile satellite terminal from the United States Department of Defence.

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Space law is a complex system that governs activities in outer space. It consists of various components such as international treaties, conventions, United Nations General Assembly resolutions, as well as rules and regulations of international organizations. In this paper, we will explore the legal framework of space law on an international level, examining significant documents such as the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. Additionally, the paper will investigate the militarization of outer space by analyzing the intersection between space law and the evolving military activities occurring there.

Space militarization: a review of international space law [BRIEF]

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Space law is a complex system that governs activities in outer space.

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The EU emphasises that the war in Ukraine highlighted the key role of space-based connectivity in the conduct of military operations (Clapp & Evroux, 2023). In the case of the war in Ukraine, the use of satellites for observation and transmission of information proved crucial. Russia launched cyberattacks to weaken space-based assets used by Ukraine, while an hour before the invasion a multi-faceted attack was launched against the private satellite provider Viasat’s KA-SAT network, which provides high-speed satellite internet coverage for Europe. The attack intended to weaken Ukraine's command and control capabilities. Ukraine's military capabilities are also boosted by Starlink, which gives artillery forces information that soldiers upload via encrypted chat.

Europe’s future capabilities in space and in the higher atmosphere

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HYDEF hypersonic interceptors, satellite resilience, and space commands.

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EWSS is an upcoming service of the Galileo constellation, which will be disseminating alert messages directly to the population of areas threatened by a looming natural or manmade disaster. More specifically, the Galileo satellites will be transmitting to smartphones, or to any other navigation devices able to receive Galileo signals (through a chipset), information related to the hazard (such as type of hazard, its severity, time of onset and expected duration, the targeted area) and instructions to follow depending on the area the user is located at. The alert content will be generated by national authorities and transmitted to Galileo for broadcast.

Galileo Emergency Warning Satellite Service (EWSS) is underway

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EWSS will become a strategic asset to support the policies of the European Union and of its Member States in the field of disaster management.

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In his opening keynote, Commissioner Thierry Breton, while praising Europe’s successes on space, called for the need to maintain Europe at the forefront of space innovation and build a “Europe of power” that needs to ambitious, fast and agile. Commissioner Breton emphasised the EU actions for a sovereign Europe that reduces technological dependencies in strategic supply chains and prioritises security and defence.

European Space Conference: towards a single market for space and more robust systems

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Commissioner Thierry Breton called for the need to maintain Europe at the forefront of space innovation and build a “Europe of power” that needs to ambitious, fast and agile.

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A consortium led by OHB System AG, a subsidiary of the space and technology group OHB SE, has been selected by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS) to conduct a study to examine the technological and programmatic framework for the development of a new European Earth-Observation service for government-authorised users, which may include the development of new satellite-based reconnaissance capabilities at European level.

OHB signs contract for study to develop reconnaissance capabilities at European level

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A consortium led by OHB System AG has been selected to conduct a study to examine the technological and programmatic framework for the development of a new European Earth-Observation service.

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During the night between 18 and 19 January, Swedish time, Marcus Wandt, who works as the Chief Test Pilot at Saab, started his journey from the Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station, ISS. Saab is one of the co-financiers of the project, aiming to ensure that Sweden remains at the forefront of space research.

Saab’s chief test pilot, Marcus Wandt, embarks on space mission to ISS

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During the night between 18 and 19 January, Swedish time, Marcus Wandt, who works as the Chief Test Pilot at Saab, started his journey from the Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station.

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The Space Development Agency (SDA) announced the award of three prototype agreements to build 54 satellites to establish the Tranche 2 (T2) Tracking Layer, which will proliferate missile warning/missile tracking (MW/MT) infrared sensors as well as fire control-quality infrared sensors for missile defence in support of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

SDA awards contracts to L3Harris, Lockheed and Sierra Space for missile defence program

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The Space Development Agency (SDA) announced the award of three prototype agreements to build 54 satellites to establish the Tranche 2 (T2) Tracking Layer.

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