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Airbus Defence & Space: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Airbus Defence and Space offers satellite imagery, elevation data and analytics from optical and radar constellations through its geospatial business. The OneAtlas platform is used to order imagery: archive images from, among others, Pléiades Neo, Pléiades and SPOT, new acquisitions through tasking, radar data and elevation models such as WorldDEM Neo. With the subscription service Living Library, selected imagery can be streamed or downloaded. An API and a developer portal are available for integration. Products are delivered online through the platform and the API.

Airbus Defence and Space is the military and space systems division of Airbus, with major sites in Germany (main office in Taufkirchen) and France. The products are commercial, closed-source software and data. The public product pages do not state where the platform and customer workspaces are hosted, so this should be settled in the contract terms and the data processing agreement. For a European organisation that wants satellite imagery from a vendor with a European parent company, that is the main point to check.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 5, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	GIS & Geospatial
Type	Product
Website	space-solutions.airbus.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Airbus Defence & Space

The European alternatives to Airbus Defence & Space come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Airbus Defence & Space

Airbus Defence & Space is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Airbus Defence & Space scores best on data residency.

Airbus Defence & Space is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Airbus Defence & Space together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Airbus Defence & Space?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Airbus Defence & Space include 52°North, Camptocamp and Coexya. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Airbus Defence & Space?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Airbus Defence & Space include 52°North and Camptocamp. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Airbus Defence & Space GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Airbus Defence & Space is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Airbus Defence & Space an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

space-solutions.airbus.com/

Compliance evidence

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