--- title: Eight NATO allies launch HALO, a plan to link military... description: Eight NATO allies — Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Türkiye — launched HALO (Hybrid Alliance Layered Operations in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/eight-nato-allies-launch-halo-a-plan-to-link-military-satellites-into-one-networked-mega-constellat-oiaqgkfyg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Eight NATO allies launch HALO, a plan to link military satellites into one networked mega-constellation | daily.dev og:description: Eight NATO allies — Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Türkiye — launched HALO (Hybrid Alliance Layered Operations in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/eight-nato-allies-launch-halo-a-plan-to-link-military-satellites-into-one-networked-mega-constellat-oiaqgkfyg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oiaQgKFYG.png og:image:alt: Eight NATO allies launch HALO, a plan to link military satellites into one networked mega-constellation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Eight NATO allies launch HALO, a plan to link military satellites into one networked mega-constellation **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Eight NATO allies — Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Türkiye — launched HALO (Hybrid Alliance Layered Operations in Space) at the Ankara summit. The initiative aims to network nationally owned military satellites into a single mega-constellation for high-speed communications, intelligence sharing, and missile tracking, while each country retains ownership of its own assets. The Ankara forum also saw Canada join STARLIFT (a multinational spaceport network), Spain join the Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space programme, and Türkiye announce plans for additional reconnaissance satellites. The announcements signal space has become a central pillar of NATO defence planning, with multiple overlapping multinational programmes now operational. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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