RAMSTEIN, Germany – Space Commander’s from 19 NATO Nations and two Partner Nations, Australia and Japan, met for the annual NATO Space Operations Commanders’ Conference at Allied Air Command in Ramstein, Germany, June 4 to 5, 2025.
The conference brought together Space Commanders and subject matter experts from Allied and Partner nations to strengthen collaboration and deepen strategic ties. Since its launch in 2023, the annual event has served as a platform for enhancing cooperation in space by fostering dialogue, sharing expertise, and building integrated approaches to common challenges.
The key focus of this year’s conference was commercial contributions to NATO Space Operations. The continued collaboration ensures agile, scalable innovative solutions that complement national and Alliance-led capabilities, enhancing NATO’s operational resilience and technological edge.
This year’s conference aimed to deepen multinational and commercial collaboration, featuring panel sessions dedicated to innovative solutions and space capability development. These discussions underscore the importance of aligning innovation efforts, shared standards and interoperability.
In 2019, NATO recognized Space as an operational domain and Allied Air Command in Germany homes the NATO Space Operations Centre staffed with a multinational team of Space experts. Photo by Arnaud Chamberlin
The annual Space conference aims to deepen multinational and commercial collaboration and underscores the importance of aligning innovation efforts, shared standards and interoperability. Photo by Arnaud Chamberlin
Space is fundamental to modern public services and global communication. Precise GPS signals guide emergency services and facilitate transportation, satellite imagery is crucial for disaster response and environmental monitoring, and satellite communication supports terrestrial communication infrastructure. Space enables the delivery of reliable mobile phone services and internet connectivity to global broadcasting, vital for daily life, economic stability, and informed societies.
Space also plays an essential role in deterrence, defence, and operational effectiveness. In 2019, NATO recognized Space as an operational domain, the NATO Space Operations Centre, part of the Combined Force Space Component Command is located at Allied Air Command and is staffed with a multinational team of military personnel and civilian experts.
The Centre is designed to coordinate Allied Space activities, support NATO missions and operations from Space, and protect Allied Space systems by sharing information about potential threats. The Space centre works closely with the National space operations centres, agencies and organisations, appropriately sharing data, products and services to support the timely decision-making of Commanders across all domains.
The close coordination of Allied Space activities support NATO missions ensuring that NATO can rapidly respond to any current or emerging threat, whilst continuing to promote regional security and stability.