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Spire CEO Peter Platzer (left) and Etienne Schneider, deputy prime minister and minister of the economy of Luxembourg, discuss the Nov. 15 agreement to invest in Spire in exchange for the company establishing its European headquarters in the country.

An agreement announced Nov. 15 brings together a space company looking to grow its capabilities with a government seeking to expand its presence in the space industry.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...