EU Space Market Report

EU Space Market Report 2026

The EU Space Market Report 2026 presents key trends, forecasts and insights shaping the evolution of the global space economy. Through data-driven analysis and sector-focused perspectives, the report explores how EO, GNSS, Secure SATCOM, and SSA are transforming industries, enabling resilience and supporting innovation across Europe and beyond.

This first issue analyses the downstream markets addressed by the EU Space Programme, primarily with GNSS and EO, but also marks the first step towards the integration of Secure SATCOM and SSA into the underlying economic model. The EO and GNSS markets, spanning a variety of applications, are now categorised into 16 segments, with the addition of EU Border and Internal Security. Secure SATCOM is defined around three relevant categories – surveillance, crisis management, and key infrastructure – addressing 12 use cases.

Overview

The global space market continues to evolve towards service-driven ecosystems, where value creation increasingly comes from downstream applications, analytics and integrated digital services.

Rapid advances in data processing, AI, automation and connectivity are accelerating the adoption of space-enabled solutions across a wide range of sectors. At the same time, growing geopolitical, environmental and operational challenges are reinforcing the importance of resilient, reliable and sovereign European space capabilities.