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NATO Releases its First Commercial Space Strategy

By Rachel Jewett

Wednesday, June 25th, 2025

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NATO Releases its First Commercial Space Strategy

NATO’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: NATO

NATO released its Commercial Space Strategy on Tuesday, aimed at integrating commercial solutions more flexibly, and creating more business opportunities while simplifying how space companies engage with NATO. The “Commercial Space Strategy,” the first of its kind for NATO, was developed in consultation with industry. It supports NATO’s “Overarching Space Policy,” released in 2019 about NATO’s approach to space. The treaty organization is not an autonomous actor in space, but rather looks to complement the work of NATO allies in space.…

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