Why ASPEX?
Space is no longer a technological luxury. It has become a strategic infrastructure, essential to the sovereignty, security, governance and sustainable development of nations.
In Africa, needs are clear and immediate: agriculture and climate, security and resilience, connectivity, land use planning, finance, public governance.
Space itself represents an opportunity for job creation and wealth through improved telecommunications and its derived products and services, and geolocation for more precise navigation and positioning.
Capabilities exist
Technologies are available and talents are there.
Missing infrastructure
What was missing was a continental infrastructure capable of structuring action.
The ASPEX solution
Connect decision-makers to operators and transform priorities into concrete projects.
What is Africa Space Expo?
Africa Space Expo (ASPEX) is the continental reference infrastructure where African space solutions are built, negotiated, and deployed. Carried by the African Union through the African Space Agency (AfSA), it is the only pan-African infrastructure dedicated to turning spatial potential into concrete economic opportunities.
Strategic positioning
ASPEX is the reference infrastructure for African space business.
A space for decision, structuring, and execution where markets, partnerships, and the continent's space solutions are built in concrete terms. ASPEX is:
- • the structured business platform focused on results and contracting,
- • the accelerator of applied space projects, grounded in African realities,
- • the continental hub connecting institutions, industry, and investors,
- • the operational framework for co-design, where high-impact economic and societal solutions emerge.
Here, dynamics align, decisions are made, and projects roll out. ASPEX structures. ASPEX builds. ASPEX delivers.
Action Infrastructure
ASPEX is an accelerator of deployment and contracting at continental scale. Join the infrastructure where Africa's space business is organized. Here, intentions become decisions, conversations become partnerships, and ambitions become concrete commitments.
Partnerships & Projects
Develop and strengthen partnerships, initiate operational projects. At ASPEX, African space is decided, built, and deployed.
Innovation & Impact
Put space innovation and concrete applications at the service of sustainable development and African sovereignty.
A clear vision
Strategic lever
Make space a strategic African lever
Economic sector
A structured and credible economic sector
Concrete tool
A concrete tool serving states, companies, territories and populations
ASPEX positions Africa not as a passive market, but as an actor capable of designing, negotiating, financing and deploying its own space capabilities, in balanced partnership with the rest of the world.
Targets and stakeholders
Create and deploy a structured and perennial continental framework promoting the development of space affairs in Africa, institutional dialogue, applied innovation, and the implementation of strategic partnerships.
Stakeholders
Governments and public institutions
African and international space agencies
Private sector: companies, startups, industrialists
Universities and research centers
Young talents and innovators
Women in the space sector
Civil society
Expected results
Expected impacts
Strengthening institutional and economic dialogue
Establishment of a continental space business infrastructure
Signing of strategic partnerships and launch of pilot projects
ASPEX est l'espace où l'Afrique passe à l'action.
The Organizers
ASPEX (Africa Space Expo) is a joint initiative of the African Union and the Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, implemented through the African Space Agency (AfSA) and the Côte d'Ivoire Space Agency (ASCI).
The operational implementation of ASPEX is ensured by the EBURNIE SPACE Foundation, lead of the event.
African Union
Initiator
African Space Agency (AfSA)
Implementation
Côte d'Ivoire Space Agency (ASCI)
Implementation
EBURNIE SPACE Foundation
Lead of the event
Ivorian Institutional Partners
