Alén Space

Alén Space, headquartered in Ourense, Galicia, Spain and founded in 2013, is a European CubeSat specialist offering end-to-end small satellite design, manufacturing, launch procurement, and in-orbit operations services — operating as part of the GMV Group (Spain's largest aerospace and defense technology company) while maintaining its identity as a focused CubeSat specialist with an enviable 100% mission success rate across over 60 client collaborations.

Alén Space's core expertise lies in communication satellites at the 1U-12U cubesat form factor, particularly UHF/VHF and S-band satellite communication platforms for IoT telemetry, environmental monitoring data relay, ship tracking (AIS), aircraft tracking (ADS-B), and amateur radio communication missions. The company designs both complete satellite systems and individual subsystems including on-board computers (OBC), ultra-high frequency (UHF) transceivers, S-band transceivers, and solar panels — all qualified for space environments through rigorous testing programs aligned with ECSS (European Cooperation for Space Standardization) standards.

Alén Space's vertically integrated model covers the full satellite development lifecycle: requirements definition, system engineering, component procurement, PCB manufacturing and electronics integration, satellite structural assembly, environmental test campaigns (thermal vacuum, vibration, electromagnetic compatibility), launch procurement from rideshare brokers (SpaceX Transporter, ISRO PSLV, Rocket Lab Electron), ground station operations, and in-orbit data delivery. This turnkey capability allows customers ranging from research universities and national space agencies deploying educational nanosatellites to commercial operators building IoT constellation prototypes to work with a single supplier for their entire mission.

Alén Space's Galician location, while not a traditional European space hub, reflects Spain's broader distributed aerospace ecosystem, with the company's GMV parentage providing access to prime contractor status on European Space Agency and European defense programs that individual small satellite companies could not access independently.