Germany needs to develop a stronger strategic presence in space, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday on visiting the military’s space headquarters in Uedem to the north-west of Dusseldorf. “We need military control for satellite operation, and we have to position ourselves more strongly in space,” Pistorius said. Many in the German public were barely aware of the military’s newest unit, he said. “We simply have to acknowledge that space is a strategic dimension and that we have to involve ourselves with it, and sooner rather than later,” Pistorius said, pointing to data security,…