Germany’s Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, speaks at the Federation of German Industries Space Congress in Berlin Sept. 25. Credit: BDI/Christian Kruppa

London — Germany will invest 35 billion euros ($41.1 billion) into defense space technologies within the next five years — an unprecedented amount for any European country. The decision, made in response to rising tensions with Russia, has been hailed a “watershed moment” for the German and European space sector, and experts say could spur a new era in European space cooperation. 

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Tereza Pultarova is a London-based science and technology journalist and video producer, covering European space developments for SpaceNews. A native of the Czech Republic, she has a bachelors degree in journalism from the Charles University, Prague,...