Airbus Defence & Space ranks 8 on the Space 100 with a score of 85; Astranis ranks 61 with 71. Airbus Defence & Space is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, positioning, firepower and leverage. Astranis is ahead on progress. Level on technology. Airbus Defence & Space is based in Taufkirchen, Germany, Astranis in San Francisco, United States. Airbus Defence & Space: Subsidiary. Astranis: Growth. Airbus Defence & Space is named in 50 signals and Astranis in 26.
Airbus Defence & Space builds and integrates satellite platforms, including the SpainSat NG 2 platform and 66 platforms for the IRIS² constellation.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Airbus Defence & Space is the space division of Airbus SE, a full-line prime with the OneSat software-defined GEO line, EO systems, and a launch stake via ArianeGroup, and winner of Eutelsat OneWeb's 440-satellite next-generation constellation order. It is party to the Airbus/Leonardo/Thales space-merger MoU (late 2025, Project Bromo class), whose fate is the biggest single variable in European space industrial structure. Figures are group- or division-scoped (a dedicated filings pass owed).
50 signals name Airbus Defence & Space.
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Astranis designs and manufactures small geostationary broadband satellites, including dedicated satellites for customers such as stc Group and its MicroGEO product line.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Astranis is a US satellite maker whose MicroGEO small dedicated GEO satellites (multiple on orbit since 2023, with the next-gen Omega program) offer niche-GEO-as-a-service, the counter-thesis to LEO constellations, serving nations and telcos without $300M satellite budgets. It raised a Series E in May 2026 (a16z participating) on top of ~$750M in prior rounds. The Series E amount was not disclosed in this pass's sources (a gap).
26 signals name Astranis.
22 facts on file.
Airbus Defence & Space ranks 8 on the Space 100 with a score of 85; Astranis ranks 61 with 71. Airbus Defence & Space is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, positioning, firepower and leverage. Astranis is ahead on progress. Level on technology. Airbus Defence & Space is based in Taufkirchen, Germany, Astranis in San Francisco, United States. Airbus Defence & Space: Subsidiary. Astranis: Growth. Airbus Defence & Space is named in 50 signals and Astranis in 26.
Airbus Defence & Space ranks 8 on the Space 100 with a score of 85; Astranis ranks 61 with 71. Airbus Defence & Space is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, positioning, firepower and leverage. Astranis is ahead on progress. Level on technology. Airbus Defence & Space is based in Taufkirchen, Germany, Astranis in San Francisco, United States. Airbus Defence & Space: Subsidiary. Astranis: Growth. Airbus Defence & Space is named in 50 signals and Astranis in 26. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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