Overview
Aerospacelab was founded in Charleroi in 2018 by Benoit Deper. The company focuses on industrializing satellite manufacturing, moving the industry from bespoke, slow production toward a high-throughput factory model capable of producing 500 satellites per year.
The company's funding trajectory reflects strong institutional confidence: a EUR 37.5M commitment from the European Investment Bank was followed by a EUR 94M Series B in August 2025, bringing total raised to EUR 131M. The EIB involvement signals Aerospacelab's strategic relevance to European space sovereignty ambitions.
Aerospacelab operates across commercial satellite manufacturing and defense-adjacent markets. Its Wallonia location is notable, as the region has historically been less prominent in the Belgian tech ecosystem compared to Flanders and Brussels.
Funding & milestones
2 events found for Aerospacelab · 2022–2025
Series BVenture / equity1 source€40M
Reported amount €40,000,000
Participating investor confirms a €40m Series B; €60m figure is cumulative funding.
InvestorsAirbus VenturesXAngeOctave KlabaMiroslaw KlabaSRIWNoshaqSambrinvestBelaeroBNP Paribas Fortis Private EquityMixed financing1 sourceAmount not disclosed
Headline €94m consists of €56m dual-tranche funding plus €38m institutional commitment; not stated as a single new cash equity close.
Recorded history so far. Original currencies are preserved; amounts in different currencies are not added together. Debt, grants, acquisitions and listings are separate event types. Undated events appear last.
Profile narrative
- EUR 37.5M EIB financing
- EUR 94M Series B (August 2025)
- Total: EUR 131M
Key people
In the news
- Benoît Deper, oprichter van Aerospacelab: ‘Het grootste probleem in Europa is een gebrek aan ambitie’Benoît Deper en zijn bedrijf Aerospacelab zijn aan een groot ruimteavontuur begonnen. Met een Megafactory in Charleroi willen ze vijfhonderd satellieten per jaar bouwen. Deper is ambitieus: "Nog maar 5 procent van ons verhaal is geschreven."
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DataNews · 5 Nov 2026
- Une usine unique en son genre. La plus moderne et la plus grande d'Europe 🛰🇪🇺 Pour La Libre, Pierre-François Lovens a poussé la porte de la megafactory de Aerospacelab, construite avec le soutien de Noshaq 🕵🏭 Un nouvel étendard de l'innovation Made in Wallonia, qui sera inauguré le 24 novembre 🐓✨ Vers le reportage complet 📰👉 https://lnkd.in/ePZdkuhv #provocateursdepossibles
- Une usine unique en son genre. La plus moderne et la plus grande d'Europe 🛰🇪🇺 Pour La Libre, Pierre-François Lovens a poussé la porte de la megafactory de Aerospacelab, construite avec le soutien de Noshaq 🕵🏭 Un nouvel étendard de l'innovation Made in Wallonia, qui sera inauguré le 24 novembre 🐓✨ Vers le reportage complet 📰👉 https://lnkd.in/ePZdkuhv #provocateursdepossibles
- It’s all about sovereign capabilities. Global MilSatCom is where defence operators, agencies and primes working on secure and resilient satellite communications get together. With scalable and sovereign manufacturing know-how as a decision-making factor, our Megafactory in the centre of Europe is designed and built for versatile missions and volume production. You’re a Londoner for the week? Reach out to our team (sales@aerospacelab.com) and make sure you meet with our delegation (Pierre W. and Leonardo Andreasi) onsite. 📅 2-5
- 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁. That is the conversation we are bringing to you, California. Silicon Valley Space Week puts the operators, investors and constellation builders who will define the next decade in the same room. We want to hear what they are planning, and we want to show them what our production capacity can deliver for their next missions. Our team will be on site for the full week. Booth 53 27-29 October 2026 Come to say hello to Pierre
- 4 more reasons to look up tonight 💫 Today, four satellites designed and built by Aerospacelab hitched a ride on Bandwagon-5 from Cape Canaveral. And now they’re officially on their way to reach their final orbit. Their mission? Helping Xona Space Systems power Pulsar, a navigation constellation that wants to make “you are here” a lot more precise. 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬̵: • They broadcast real-time precision location with accuracy greater than 10cm. • First image is a
- T-1! Launch day is nearly here and the countdown is officially on [𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝟏𝟐:𝟑𝟎 - 𝟏𝟑:𝟑𝟎 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞] 🚀 Four Aerospacelab-built satellites are about to start delivering a new kind of navigation service from orbit. We’re proud to help Xona launch the first batch of its Pulsar constellation. Watch the SpaceX live tomorrow and enjoy the show: https://lnkd.in/g5Qyeyhn
- La force d'un portefeuille. VerticalCompute et Aerospacelab, deux de nos sociétés participées, ont obtenu un Private Equity Awards lors de l'événement organisé par Private Capital Belgium. Un grand bravo à Sylvain Dubois Sebastien Couet (cofondateurs de Vertical Compute) et Benoît Deper (fondateur & CEO d'Aerospacelab), et à leurs teams. Chez Noshaq, nous sommes fiers d'être à vos côtés.
Backers
imec.xpand
Independent deep-tech VC linked to imec, focused on semiconductors and nanotechnology with EUR 300M under management.
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