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Aerospacelab

Aerospacelab is a vertically integrated satellite manufacturer headquartered in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium, founded in 2018 by Benoit Deper. The company designs, builds, tests and operates small-to-medium satellites — its Versatile Satellite Platform (VSP-50, VSP-150, VSP-300) family plus mission-specific payloads spanning very-high-resolution and multispectral/hyperspectral Earth observation, synthetic aperture radar, radio-frequency sensing, and narrowband/broadband telecommunications — for commercial, institutional and government customers, with an explicitly ITAR-free European supply chain. It is roughly 90% vertically integrated across platforms, payloads, avionics and subsystems, has flown eight satellites in under three years, acquired Belgian space-optics firm AMOS, and is building a European satellite megafactory targeting 500 satellites per year. Aerospacelab publishes no public developer program, API documentation or machine-readable API contract; its programmatic surfaces (mission control, tasking, image-processing pipeline and data platform built under the ESA InCubed MultiSpectral Companion Mission) are delivered to contracted mission customers rather than to self-serve developers.

Aerospacelab is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Satellites, Space, Earth Observation, and Aerospace.

Aerospacelab’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 10 more developer resources.

12.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
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CompanySatellitesSpaceEarth ObservationAerospaceRemote SensingSatellite ManufacturingTelecommunicationsDefenseBelgium

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 12.3/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 1.1 / 17
Commercial Clarity 1.8 / 17
Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11
Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 3.3 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Telecommunications regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Aerospacelab Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Aerospacelab Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: aerospacelab
name: Aerospacelab
description: Aerospacelab is a vertically integrated satellite manufacturer headquartered in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium,
  founded in 2018 by Benoit Deper. The company designs, builds, tests and operates small-to-medium satellites — its Versatile
  Satellite Platform (VSP-50, VSP-150, VSP-300) family plus mission-specific payloads spanning very-high-resolution and multispectral/hyperspectral
  Earth observation, synthetic aperture radar, radio-frequency sensing, and narrowband/broadband telecommunications — for
  commercial, institutional and government customers, with an explicitly ITAR-free European supply chain. It is roughly 90%
  vertically integrated across platforms, payloads, avionics and subsystems, has flown eight satellites in under three years,
  acquired Belgian space-optics firm AMOS, and is building a European satellite megafactory targeting 500 satellites per year.
  Aerospacelab publishes no public developer program, API documentation or machine-readable API contract; its programmatic
  surfaces (mission control, tasking, image-processing pipeline and data platform built under the ESA InCubed MultiSpectral
  Companion Mission) are delivered to contracted mission customers rather than to self-serve developers.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aerospacelab/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://www.aerospacelab.com/web/image/342190-68a123e8/Aerospacelab_VHR_20231221_0016%20%281%29-min.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Satellites
- Space
- Earth Observation
- Aerospace
- Remote Sensing
- Satellite Manufacturing
- Telecommunications
- Defense
- Belgium
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aerospacelab-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/blog
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/blog/press-releases-1/feed
- type: Support
  url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/privacy
- type: Security
  url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure-policy
- type: Partners
  url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/partners-suppliers
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/jobs
- type: Events
  url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/events
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/aerospacelab-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/aerospacelab-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-06'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: Aerospacelab is a satellite manufacturer that sells missions, not API calls — its own sitemap lists only marketing,
    blog, events, jobs and legal pages with no developer, docs or API section, and api./developer./docs.aerospacelab.com do
    not resolve at all.
  evidence:
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    status: 200
  - url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/developers
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  - url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.aerospacelab.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.aerospacelab.com/
    status: 0
  checked: '2026-08-06'