{"id":7619,"date":"2025-04-10T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7619\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:39:08","slug":"space-alliances-hold-strong-despite-broader-geopolitical-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7619\/","title":{"rendered":"Space alliances hold strong despite broader geopolitical tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 Despite ongoing trade disputes and disagreements between Washington and European capitals over Ukraine strategy, U.S. Space Force officials said international space cooperation remains largely unaffected by these broader tensions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been business as usual in terms of the collaboration with the partners and allies this week,\u201d said Air Marshal Paul Godfrey, former commander of the U.K. Space Command who currently serves at the Pentagon on the U.S. Space Force staff as assistant chief of space operations for future concepts and partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe space domain is different to the other domains,\u201d he told reporters April 9 at the Space Symposium, suggesting that rifts that affect other aspects of transatlantic cooperation don\u2019t impact space issues as much.<\/p>\n<p>This resilience of space partnerships mirrors previous instances where space collaboration has transcended geopolitical conflicts. A notable example is NASA and Russia\u2019s continued joint operations at the International Space Station after the U.S. and Russia severed many other relationships following Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Saltzman to meet with military chiefs<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force, echoed this sentiment while speaking to reporters alongside Godfrey. He emphasized the importance of maintaining and strengthening international partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>Saltzman this week is hosting an annual meeting with military air and space leaders from around the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/space-force-to-roll-out-strategy-for-international-collaboration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He used a keynote address<\/a> at the Space Symposium to emphasize the Space Force\u2019s push to deepen international partnerships, a move he said is essential to staying ahead of threats and maintaining technological interoperability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith regard to military-to-military relationships,\u201d said Saltzman, \u201cespecially with my counterparts that I deal with on routine basis, just as as the air marshal said, \u2018it\u2019s business as usual.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still discussing the same challenges,\u201d he said, including declassification concerns and initiatives for joint training and educational courses.<\/p>\n<p>When addressing European cooperation specifically, Saltzman emphasized that the U.S. approach remains NATO-centric. \u201cThat\u2019s really what we support,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Force chief also noted the strategic advantages of these partnerships, pointing out that European allies are making significant investments in space technologies and have developed vibrant commercial space industries that the U.S. can leverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to buy two of the same things when you only have to buy one of them,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to buy things that don\u2019t work together, because that creates a seam,\u201d he added. \u201cLet\u2019s work together and figure out what we are going to buy so that maybe coalition partners could take advantage of that and buy something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 Despite ongoing trade disputes and disagreements between Washington and European capitals over Ukraine strategy, U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[4796,2821,70,413,3478,3882,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-7619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-chance-saltzman","9":"tag-nato","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-space-force","13":"tag-space-symposium","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114313243047956378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}