Satellite operators need warnings of collisions between their spacecraft and other objects, and the public catalogues cover about 25,000 of them, according to the company's EU project report. Share My Space, a Toulouse start-up founded in 2017 and renamed Aldoria in 2024, tracks them with its own networks of optical telescopes and sells the data and collision warnings, aiming to give Europe an alternative to catalogues run by the US military.
The European Innovation Council granted €2,150,000 towards a €3.07 million project that deployed its first multi-telescope stations, and the EIC Fund joined a €10 million Series A in January 2024. Since then Aldoria has won work from the French Space Command, the EU space surveillance programme and, in September 2026, the European Defence Fund. French register data show revenue of €3.7 million and a net loss of €3.5 million in 2025.
Company file
- Legal entity
- Aldoria SAS (formerly Share My Space), SIREN 830390043, Toulouse, France
- Founded
- 2017, by Romain Lucken (CEO) and Damien Giolito
- Offices
- Toulouse, Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve, Austin
- Services
- Satellite and debris tracking, collision avoidance, space domain awareness
- Investors
- Starquest Capital, EIC Fund, Bpifrance (Deeptech 2030), Expansion Ventures, Space Founders France, Wind Capital
- Total raised
- €22 million by January 2024
- EIC project
- CASSIOPEE, 1 Feb 2022 to 31 Jan 2024, closed
- EIC funding
- Blended finance
Where Aldoria Stands Today
Aldoria's news page reads increasingly like a defence supplier's. In 2025 it installed its most advanced surveillance station in Spain, opened a site in Belgium and won a surveillance operations contract from the French Space Command. CNES awarded it an attitude analysis experiment within the EU's space surveillance and tracking programme. In February 2026 it signed a contract with India's AXISCADES for an optical station and, with Integrasys, a memorandum with Luxembourg's defence ministry. In September 2026 the two were selected for EOBLINDING, a €6 million, 30-month European Defence Fund project in which Aldoria will build its first mobile space surveillance station.
The Technology: Many Small Telescopes
Aldoria uses stations with several passive optical telescopes each, spread around the world, to observe satellites and debris, and software to compute orbits and predict close approaches. In January 2024 it said it had six stations on four continents and planned twelve by 2025.
"Recent conflicts demonstrate just how important Earth observation satellites have become in the conduct of military operations."
Alexis Petit, CTO, Aldoria, September 2026What the EIC Project Promised, and What CORDIS Shows
CASSIOPEE aimed to "disrupt space surveillance" with collision prediction algorithms and an independent catalogue of more than 100,000 debris objects smaller than 10 cm. According to the CORDIS results, the company developed and deployed two multi-telescope observation stations with four telescopes each, recruited 23 people and signed "a major commercial contract" for data in 2022. The report gives a target catalogue of more than 150,000 objects, but not how many objects Aldoria actually tracks.
- Multi-telescope stationsDeliveredTwo stations, four telescopes each.
- Commercial customersDelivered20+ customers claimed in 2024.
- A catalogue of 100,000+ small debrisNot shownTarget stated; size not published.
- Twelve stations by 2025Not shownNo current count published.
What Has Happened Since the Award
The Money
The January 2024 Series A of €10 million was led by Starquest Capital, with the EIC Fund, the French state through Bpifrance's Deeptech 2030 fund, Expansion Ventures, Space Founders France and Wind Capital, bringing total funding to €22 million. The company then claimed more than 20 customers and partnerships with CNES, ESA, Airbus Defence and Space, Astroscale and Isar Aerospace. Its 2025 accounts show €3.71 million in revenue and a net loss of €3.47 million.
What cannot be checked
The EIC Fund's share of the Series A, the size of Aldoria's catalogue, how many stations it runs today and the value of its defence contracts are not public.
Why Europe Should Care
CORDIS describes the project as challenging the US military's dominance in tracking objects in orbit. Aldoria's customers now include French and Luxembourg defence bodies and the European Defence Fund, which makes it part of Europe's effort to watch its own sky. EU money supported it twice, through the EIC grant and the EIC Fund.
What the project promised
Collision prediction and an independent catalogue of 100,000+ small debris for all space actors.
What the record shows
Deployed stations, a €10M round, €3.7M revenue and defence contracts; catalogue size not published.
The Verdict
Growing, and moving towards defence
The EIC's grant and equity helped build a real business with real revenue and customers in European defence. The project's headline goal, an independent catalogue of small debris, has not been shown in public, and the company still loses almost as much as it earns.
Aldoria has not been asked for comment for this article. It is based entirely on company statements, EU project data and the French company register, linked throughout.
