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Infographic summarizing NATO’s space domain awareness process, the six categories it monitors, its coordination with civil and military space actors, and the operational benefits of shared information.

SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS: UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS HAPPENING IN ORBIT.

Infographic explaining how NATO coordinates voluntary national, multinational, and commercial space capabilities for communications, surveillance, navigation, security, and Alliance operations.

NATO’S MULTINATIONAL SPACE ARCHITECTURE: HOW ALLIES SHARE CAPABILITIES

Infographic text explains how space-enabled capabilities support NATO and its Allies, listing ten areas that include communications, navigation, intelligence, missile warning, commercial services, space domain awareness, protection, multinational architecture, and future conflict.

NATO AND SPACE SERVICES

Infographic describing satellite communications support for NATO missions, including connections among command centres, ground stations, satellites, and deployed forces; operational use cases; resilience benefits; and risks such as congestion, jamming, cyber threats, and limited redundancy.

SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS: CONNECTING NATO FORCES

Infographic describing how positioning, navigation and timing support military operations, including force movement, navigation, synchronization, targeting, logistics and data integrity, while outlining degradation risks and resilience measures.

POSITIONING, NAVIGATION AND TIMING: THE INVISIBLE BACKBONE OF NATO OPERATIONS

Infographic explains how NATO uses electro-optical imagery, synthetic aperture radar, radio-frequency signals and other space data through five stages—collect, process, fuse, share and decide—and describes APSS, Aquila and related operational benefits.

SPACE-BASED INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE FOR NATO

Infographic explaining how NATO space services support a hypothetical multi-domain operation. It lists five phases from pre-crisis preparation through recovery and adaptation; identifies communications, navigation, ISR, early warning, environmental monitoring, allied augmentation, and space awareness; maps a six-step decision cycle; and presents threats and resilience responses.

NATO SPACE SERVICES IN A FUTURE CONFLICT

Infographic summarizing commercial space services, a five-step operational value chain, typical capabilities, benefits for NATO, policy direction since February 2025, and associated risks.

COMMERCIAL SPACE SERVICES AND NATO OPERATIONS

Infographic describing NATO’s dependence on space-enabled services and outlining resilience measures, continuity benefits, threats, and response approaches.

PROTECTING NATO’S SPACE-ENABLED SERVICES FROM DISRUPTION

Infographic describing a five-step missile-warning process: space-based detection, trajectory tracking, shared warning, decision support, and defence, disruption, or communication responses, with notes on deterrence and system limitations.

MISSILE WARNING FROM SPACE: DETECTING THREATS EARLIER