Aerospacelab
Aerospacelab is Belgium’s attempt to speed-run the “from startup to prime contractor” arc. The company’s selling point isn’t a quirky payload or a single flagship bird. It’s scale as a…
Manufacturers / Integrators
The hardware crowd. Antennas, buses, payloads, the people you actually need when PowerPoint slides won’t reach orbit.
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Airbus
Airbus is less a company than a peace treaty. It was born to stop France and Germany from strangling each other over aerospace, and it still functions like a permanent…
Cailabs
Cailabs is one of those French “deeptech” startups that actually has real tech, not just a slick deck. They’re in the optical comms business, which in plain terms means building…
Capella Space
Capella Space is Silicon Valley’s answer to “what if a defense prime was run by hoodie-wearing MBAs who really wanted to be Palantir.” They sell synthetic aperture radar as a…
Comtech
Comtech is one of those companies that has somehow managed to exist everywhere and nowhere in satcom at the same time. They don’t own spacecraft, they don’t launch rockets, and…
Firefly Aerospace
Firefly Aerospace has made an entire business out of being the kid no one invited to the launch party. After going bankrupt in 2017, it was resurrected by Max Polyakov’s…
Geespace / Geesatcom
GeeSpace is the in-house constellation shop for Geely, and GEESATCOM is the network it’s been cranking into orbit to make Geely’s cars and assorted machines talk everywhere without begging terrestrial…
Intellian
Intellian is the antenna shop that managed to turn maritime satcom hardware into a serious global business while avoiding the fate of most niche manufacturers that get swallowed or collapse.…
K2 Space
K2 Space wants to drag the satellite bus industry out of the 1990s. They’re pushing oversized, high‑power, electric‑propulsion buses that look more like power plants with antennas strapped on than…
KNS
KNS is a South Korean antenna manufacturer that has made a living in the shadows of bigger names like Intellian and Cobham. Founded in the early 2000s, it builds stabilized…