National Space Capacity Building

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National Space
Capacity Building

Across the world, nations are realizing that participation in the space economy is becoming a prerequisite for economic resilience, technological competitiveness, and national independence.

Space is no longer a luxury science domain, it determines who has independent access to information, who can act quickly in crises, and who must rely on others when decisions matter.

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Why does this matter?

For nations with limited or no prior experience, the question is no longer if they should build space capability, but how to build it in a way that creates long-term national competence, opportunity, and freedom of action.

Countries that don’t build space industry early don’t just miss growth — they pay others for strategic services forever. This is how space stops being a cost line and becomes jobs, suppliers, exports, and national competence. Space capability compounds — dependency does too.

GomSpace has paved the way as a NewSpace pioneer—making it possible for any nation, regardless of starting point, to build real space capability and independence

What We Deliver

GomSpace delivers end-to-end national space capacity building — from foundational training to a full training mission that lets your operators design, assemble, launch, and run a real satellite. Through the GomSpace Academy, we provide accredited education, hands-on mission experience, operational readiness training, and the institutional know-how needed to develop a sovereign space workforce.

It is a modular, scalable programme: nations can start small or build a complete space-operations capability. Everything is practical, mission-oriented, and aligned with international standards.

Alongside training and mission capability transfer, the programme explicitly supports integration with the local industrial ecosystem — enabling universities, research institutes, and emerging companies to take part in assembly, testing, mission operations, and long-term development.

Implementation

We deliver a tailored program to your country based on your ambitions and incorporating a range of elements:

GomSpace Academy: Structured learning from fundamentals to mission operations (incl. master-level accreditation)
Hands-on training mission: Operators learn by building and flying a real satellite using GomSpace platforms
Ground-segment establishment: Support to set up mission control, ground stations, and national operating procedures
Operational capability transfer: Training in tasking, data workflows, anomaly handling, and command protocols
Optional local assembly support: Available when aligned with national strategic goals
Interoperability: Prepared for future integration with defence, disaster-response, and environmental agencies
Ready for growth: A direct on-ramp to future sovereign missions (MDA, SIGINT, Aviation, SATCOM)

On-Ramp to National
Space Programmes

A new space agency or air force unit needs to grow a cadre of engineers, analysts, and mission controllers. The GomSpace Academy provides structured learning, real mission experience, and doctrine development — culminating in operators who can run national missions confidently and form the backbone of future sovereign constellations.

Grow the
local Ecossytem

A country uses the GomSpace Academy to turn a training mission into an industrial on-ramp. Local engineers are trained in satellite integration, testing, and operations, while assembly activities are established locally.

Universities and companies are onboarded to deliver software, subsystems, and ground components to space-grade standards—creating early suppliers, skilled jobs, and the foundation of a national space economy.

Timely
operational
capacity

Leverage GomSpace proven capabilities to quickly establish operational on-orbit capacities with a gradual hand-over of operational ownership to national operators – supported through the GomSpace Academy.

With an extremely tight mission timeline, we needed a platform solution that could be delivered quickly and reliably. GomSpace’s platform kit met those requirements and gave us confidence to move forward. We’ve been impressed with the thoughtful mechanical design, and it has enabled a very small engineering team to deliver a meaningful space project.

Surrey University of Portsmouth