Aerospacelab, Founded in 2018, has its headquarters at Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium, with additional offices in Toulouse (France), Lausanne (Switzerland), and a U.S. branch in Palo Alto, California. Aerospacelab is guided by the motto “Make Access to Space Simple so our Customers can Succeed on Earth.”
Aerospacelab specializes in end-to-end satellite solutions, delivering agility, scalability, and integrated systems. It had its first self-funded satellite launched in 2021, followed by several VSP-class missions in 2023 and early 2024. It was co-funded under ESA’s InCubed program to develop the Multispectral Companion Mission (MSCM), a prototype aiming for Sentinel-2 quality imagery with daily global coverage. JAXA selected the VSP-300 platform through Mitsui Bussan Aerospace for its SAMRAI mission. Aerospacelab will design, build, license, and support the launch of Xona’s PNT payload on its VSP platform, including two years of launch operations support. Vyoma awards Aerospacelab contract for its second space surveillance satellite. Aerospacelab supplies battery charge regulators (high-power subsystems) for MDA’s Aurora constellation via the Telesat Lightspeed project.
Key products
Satellite Platforms
Aerospacelab’s Versatile Satellite Platforms (VSPs) are the cornerstone of the company’s mission to make access to space simpler, faster, and more cost-effective. Designed as modular, payload-agnostic buses, the VSP family supports a wide spectrum of applications ranging from Earth observation and communications to defense, navigation, and space situational awareness. Each platform is engineered for scalability and flexibility, ensuring that customers, from government agencies to commercial operators, can integrate their payloads with minimal adaptation. By standardizing subsystems and leveraging in-house avionics, Aerospacelab shortens development cycles, reduces mission risk, and delivers reliable spacecraft at scale.
These satellite platforms have tailored configurations across different classes (VSP-50, VSP-150, VSP-300) to accommodate payloads of varying size, weight, and power requirements. They are capable of hosting electro-optical sensors, RF intelligence systems, navigation payloads, or scientific instruments. These platforms include flight-qualified subsystems such as power management units, onboard computers, and communication systems. They are designed for streamlined integration and compatibility with multiple launch providers, particularly SpaceX rideshare missions.
Satellite Subsystems
Aerospacelab develops a comprehensive portfolio of flight-proven satellite subsystems that form the backbone of its spacecraft platforms while also being offered as standalone solutions to customers worldwide. These subsystems are designed for reliability, modularity, and scalability, ensuring smooth integration into Aerospacelab’s own Versatile Satellite Platforms (VSPs) as well as third-party missions. By focusing on in-house development and qualification, Aerospacelab guarantees end-to-end control over performance, cost, and lead times, enabling rapid deployment of satellites at an industrial scale. Their Battery Charge Regulators are high-efficiency units capable of handling demanding power loads.
Aerospacelab’s Power Distribution Units provide robust, fault-tolerant designs that ensure a stable power supply across critical spacecraft components. Their space-qualified lithium-ion battery packs are designed for longevity and mission reliability. Aerospacelab’s Onboard Computers are high-performance, radiation-tolerant processors that manage spacecraft operations and payload control. They ensure reliable data routing, storage, and fault detection with Command and Data Handling Systems and manufacture transceivers and antennas optimized for S-band, X-band, and other mission-specific frequencies.
Mission Payloads
Aerospacelab designs, integrates, and operates a wide spectrum of mission payloads that transform its satellites into powerful tools for Earth observation, navigation, defense, and space safety. By leveraging its modular Versatile Satellite Platforms (VSPs), the company delivers payload solutions that are flexible, scalable, and mission-agnostic, supporting both commercial and governmental customers. These payloads are developed to address critical global needs from climate monitoring and agricultural optimization to secure communications, intelligence gathering, and orbital traffic management.
Multispectral Imaging (MSI) and Very High-Resolution (VHR) Imaging are utilised for Earth Observation. MSI provides rich spectral data for agriculture, forestry, water management, and environmental monitoring while VHR enables sub-meter precision imaging for urban planning, mapping, and defense reconnaissance. Radio Frequency Sensing (RFS) collects and analyzes communications and radar emissions from orbit, enhancing capabilities in defense intelligence, electronic surveillance, and spectrum monitoring. They provide governments and defense agencies with a non-intrusive, persistent monitoring capability.
Aerospacelab stands at the forefront of Europe’s fast-growing space industry, redefining how satellites are designed, built and deployed. With its scalable manufacturing model, versatile satellite platforms, advanced payload technologies and mission services, the company is shaping a future with progressive access to space. By combining engineering excellence with industrial efficiency and forging strategic partnerships with leading agencies and space innovators worldwide, Aerospacelab is building satellites with a more connected, secure, and sustainable planet.
