Aerospacelab vs GomSpace: Platforms compared

November 2026 edition · assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence

Aerospacelab ranks 86 on the Space 100 with a score of 66; GomSpace ranks 90 with 65. Aerospacelab is ahead on deployment. GomSpace is ahead on commercials and progress. Level on production, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Aerospacelab is based in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium, GomSpace in Aalborg, Denmark. GomSpace: Public. Aerospacelab is named in 60 signals and GomSpace in 26.

Aerospacelab →

Mont-Saint-Guibert, Wallonia, Belgium · Space · Satellites & spacecraft / Platforms · aerospacelab.com

Aerospacelab designs and builds satellite platforms, including the VSP-50, VSP-150 and VSP-300 buses, and complete satellites for constellations such as Telesat Lightspeed and IRIS2.

Space 100 · rank 86 · score 66

Scores, Space (of 10)

Deployment8
Production6
Commercials6
Progress9
Technology6
Positioning6
Firepower6
Leverage6

Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.

Positioning

Aerospacelab is a Belgian venture-backed satellite maker whose MEGAFACTORY (opening 2026) is billed as Europe's largest satellite production site (capacity 500 satellites a year), on top of existing own-design bus production heritage. It is part of the 2026 European capacity race (with EnduroSat and Muon), betting on EU sovereignty demand (IRIS2, defense constellations), with US expansion underway. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m.

Latest signals

  • Aerospacelab will supply satellite platforms to Lockheed Martin.Space24
  • ESA is developing the €15.6 billion Iris2 secure connectivity constellation with Aerospacelab and SES.Space Intel Report
  • Thales Alenia Space, Airbus Defense and Space, and Aerospacelab received defined payload and platform responsibilities across the two IRIS2 LEO layers.Thales Alenia Space

60 signals name Aerospacelab.

Facts, with sources

  • [object Object]SpaceNews
  • Aerospacelab satellites scheduled for launch on a SpaceX rideshare in October, including the first two buses from Xona's new manufacturing facilitySpaceNews
  • Thales Alenia Space, Airbus Defense and Space, and Aerospacelab received defined payload and platform responsibilities across the two IRIS2 LEO layersThales Alenia Space

90 facts on file.

GomSpace →

Aalborg, North Denmark Region, Denmark · Space · Satellites & spacecraft / Platforms · Public · gomspace.com

GomSpace develops and supplies small-satellite platforms and buses, including platforms used in Weather Stream’s GEMS2-Amethyst satellite and power systems supplied for D-Orbit missions.

Space 100 · rank 90 · score 65

Scores, Space (of 10)

Deployment6
Production6
Commercials7
Progress10
Technology6
Positioning6
Firepower6
Leverage6

Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.

Positioning

GomSpace is the listed European cubesat and nanosat platform incumbent (GOMX heritage; GOMX-5 8U for ESA launching 2026), promoted from watchlist as it stabilized. It raised FY26 guidance to 420-450 MSEK with a 6-12% EBITDA margin, saw Q1-26 order intake up 104%, gained Nasdaq index inclusion and EIB debt refinancing, and added defense and institutional demand (VirtuaLabs EUR7.6M, EDA participation, a Ukraine partnership). Its profitability trajectory and the Ukraine deal scope are the open questions.

Latest signals

  • GomSpace and HIMERA launched the OBRIA NANO test satellite for Ukrainian satcoms.Electronics Weekly
  • Himera and GomSpace are developing the foundation for a national Ukrainian communications network.Golem
  • GomSpace and a Ukrainian startup launched an experimental communications satellite on October 1.SpaceNews

26 signals name GomSpace.

Facts, with sources

  • USD 2400000www.prnewswire.com — 2026-09-11
  • China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology authorized a commercial trial for GomSpace's LEO satellite IoT servicepandaily.com — 2026-09-07
  • Deployed LEO satellite IoT as an onboard feature in Geely's Galaxy Warship 700pandaily.com — 2026-09-07

31 facts on file.

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Aerospacelab or GomSpace: which is ahead in space?

Aerospacelab ranks 86 on the Space 100 with a score of 66; GomSpace ranks 90 with 65. Aerospacelab is ahead on deployment. GomSpace is ahead on commercials and progress. Level on production, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Aerospacelab is based in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium, GomSpace in Aalborg, Denmark. GomSpace: Public. Aerospacelab is named in 60 signals and GomSpace in 26.

How do Aerospacelab and GomSpace compare?

Aerospacelab ranks 86 on the Space 100 with a score of 66; GomSpace ranks 90 with 65. Aerospacelab is ahead on deployment. GomSpace is ahead on commercials and progress. Level on production, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Aerospacelab is based in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium, GomSpace in Aalborg, Denmark. GomSpace: Public. Aerospacelab is named in 60 signals and GomSpace in 26. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.

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