NATO Puts Space Situational Awareness In The Spotlight

Satellite concept art

Germany will contribute imagery from its SAR-Lupe and SARah spacecraft to NATO’s Allied Persistent Surveillance from Space program.

Credit: OHB
More than half of the organization’s 32 member nations recently signed onto a new program dubbed Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space (APSS) in an effort to improve the collection, dissemination and distribution of the reams of space situational awareness data gathered by national and...
Vivienne Machi

Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week based in Los Angeles.

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