{"title":"Airbus Defence & Space vs GomSpace: Platforms compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/airbus-defence-space-vs-gomspace","comparison":"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.","companies":[{"name":"Airbus Defence & Space","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/airbus-defence-space","city":"Taufkirchen","country":"Germany","stage":"Subsidiary","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"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).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":8,"score":85,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"Airbus Defence & Space builds and integrates satellite platforms, including the SpainSat NG 2 platform and 66 platforms for the IRIS² constellation.","segment":"Platforms","layer":"Satellites & spacecraft"},"signals_total":50,"facts_total":11},{"name":"GomSpace","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/gomspace","city":"Aalborg","country":"Denmark","stage":"Public","founded":null,"last_round":null,"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":90,"score":65,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":6,"commercial":7,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":6},"why":"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.","segment":"Platforms","layer":"Satellites & spacecraft"},"signals_total":26,"facts_total":31}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}