What is being bought
Records by part or service.
Setcoin Space Contracts & Tender Radar · updated 26 Oct 2026
Who is buying what in space, right now.
US federal space contract awards and European space tenders in one feed, sorted into the parts and services a supplier sells: launch, satellites, power, avionics, propulsion, payloads, ground segment, satcom, Earth observation, navigation and space surveillance.
Every item is a public procurement record with a link to its source. The radar adds what the registers do not: one taxonomy across two continents and several languages, the stage of each procurement, and who the repeat buyers are.
607space awards and tender notices in the last twelve months
$3.6Bawarded where a value is published
9tenders open for bids today
176buyers in 26 countries
Key findings
What the last twelve months of procurement show.
- Satcom services & terminals is the most frequent purchase: 216 of 607 records (36%), from terminal buys to multi-year capacity frameworks.
- The largest new US awards in the window: Phase 3 lane 1 launch service task order (LSTO) for NTO-5 (Department of the Air Force, $205M); National security space launch services phase 3, lane 2 (Department of the Air Force, $174M); National security space launch (NSSL) phase 3 lane 2 launch services procurement (Department of the Air Force, $170M).
- Europe published 346 space notices from 25 countries; the most frequent European purchases are satcom services & terminals (151), EO data & analytics (117), ground segment (22).
- 9 tenders are open for bids on 26 Oct 2026; the largest by published estimate is "Service FWC for the Provision of Satellite Communication, related Services and Supplies…".
The radar
Pick what you sell and where you sell it.
Where
Stage
—records in your selection
—published value
—open for bids or planned
—distinct buyers
Who buys it
Most frequent buyers in your selection.
When
Records by month of award or publication.
Latest records in your selection
Open and planned first, then the most recent. Each links to its source register.
| What | Buyer | Stage | Value | Date |
|---|
Get every new tender in your category the day it is published
Subscribers get daily alerts for their parts and regions, the full feed with award winners and incumbents, and a match of each tender to their own catalogue and past wins, so the bid team sees the right tenders before the deadline.
Open now
Space tenders open for bids on 26 Oct 2026.
Records by part or service.
| Part or service | Records | US awards | European notices | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satcom services & terminals | 216 | 65 | 151 | $1.5B |
| EO data & analytics | 135 | 18 | 117 | $265M |
| Space R&D, science & other | 90 | 87 | 3 | $331M |
| Exploration & lunar | 33 | 33 | 0 | $465M |
| Launch services | 26 | 20 | 6 | $1.4B |
| Satellites & platforms | 25 | 6 | 19 | $126M |
| Navigation & GNSS | 24 | 10 | 14 | $20.3M |
| Ground segment | 24 | 2 | 22 | $23.9M |
| Sensors & science payloads | 11 | 5 | 6 | $95.2M |
| Power (arrays & batteries) | 7 | 5 | 2 | $82.1M |
| Space surveillance & debris | 6 | 5 | 1 | $13.1M |
| Propulsion | 4 | 4 | 0 | $14.1M |
| Avionics & attitude control | 3 | 0 | 3 | $297K |
| Communication payloads & crosslinks | 3 | 1 | 2 | $2.0M |
Method. US: new federal contract awards (26 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026) with a space R&D or space-vehicle product code, or whose description names satellites, spacecraft, launch or space domain awareness, above $250,000. Europe: notices on TED whose own title names satellites, spacecraft, launch, Earth observation, Copernicus, Galileo or space surveillance in any EU language, or whose main CPV code is a satellite, earth-station or satcom code; notices about buildings or unrelated uses of the word "satellite" are removed. Values are as published (euro converted at 1.08 for totals); many notices publish none. An open tender whose deadline has passed, or which is six weeks old with no deadline published, is shown as closed. Sources: USAspending.gov (US Treasury); TED, Tenders Electronic Daily (EU Publications Office). Related tools: Constellation Deployment Monitor, Space Claim Check (what the satellite catalogues record for a bidder or supplier). Related research: Space supply chain bottlenecks, Defence space and Golden Dome, Earth observation and AI analytics.
Space Contracts & Tender Radar
About the radar
What is the Space Contracts & Tender Radar?
A single feed of public space procurement: 261 new US federal space contract awards and 346 European space tender and award notices from the last twelve months, each sorted into the part or service bought, the buyer, the country and the procurement stage.
Where does the data come from?
USAspending.gov for US federal contract awards and TED, the EU’s Tenders Electronic Daily, for European prior information, contract and award notices. Both are official public registers; every record links to its source.
Which parts and services does it cover?
Launch services; satellites and platforms; power; avionics and attitude control; propulsion; communication payloads and crosslinks; sensors and science payloads; ground segment; satcom services and terminals; Earth observation data and analytics; navigation and GNSS; space surveillance and debris; exploration and lunar; and other space R&D.
Why are some values missing?
Many European notices publish no estimate, and award notices often withhold the price. The radar shows values only where the register publishes them.
What do subscribers get?
Daily alerts for their own parts and regions, the full feed with winners and incumbents, and a match of each tender to their catalogue and past wins.