Airbus Defence & Space ranks 8 on the Space 100 with a score of 85; GomSpace ranks 90 with 65. Airbus Defence & Space is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. GomSpace is ahead on progress. Airbus Defence & Space is based in Taufkirchen, Germany, GomSpace in Aalborg, Denmark. Airbus Defence & Space: Subsidiary. GomSpace: Public. Airbus Defence & Space is named in 50 signals and GomSpace in 26.
Airbus Defence & Space builds and integrates satellite platforms, including the SpainSat NG 2 platform and 66 platforms for the IRIS² constellation.
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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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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.
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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.
26 signals name GomSpace.
31 facts on file.
Airbus Defence & Space ranks 8 on the Space 100 with a score of 85; GomSpace ranks 90 with 65. Airbus Defence & Space is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. GomSpace is ahead on progress. Airbus Defence & Space is based in Taufkirchen, Germany, GomSpace in Aalborg, Denmark. Airbus Defence & Space: Subsidiary. GomSpace: Public. Airbus Defence & Space is named in 50 signals and GomSpace in 26.
Airbus Defence & Space ranks 8 on the Space 100 with a score of 85; GomSpace ranks 90 with 65. Airbus Defence & Space is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. GomSpace is ahead on progress. Airbus Defence & Space is based in Taufkirchen, Germany, GomSpace in Aalborg, Denmark. Airbus Defence & Space: Subsidiary. GomSpace: Public. Airbus Defence & Space is named in 50 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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