Connektica Has Been Selected for Batch 7 of the CASSINI Business Accelerator

On May 5, 2026, Connektica was selected for Batch 7 of the CASSINI Business Accelerator, supported by EUSPA, the EU Agency for the Space Programme. We were chosen from over 120 applicants across Europe, and we are the only French company in this cohort.

I want to be straightforward about what this selection means to me, beyond the announcement itself.

Six years ago, we founded Connektica with one clear mission: make assembly, integration, and test faster, more traceable, and dramatically more cost-efficient, without compromising quality. We started with NewSpace integrators and component manufacturers who were running complex AIT processes on paper travelers and disconnected scripts, and we built a platform that actually fits how they work.

The CASSINI selection tells me that the problem we have been solving since 2019 is now being recognised as a structural gap in the European space economy, not just an operational inconvenience for individual manufacturers.

Why this matters beyond the badge

CASSINI brings together companies building the next generation of European space infrastructure, from Earth observation and geospatial AI to in-orbit operations and sovereign capabilities. What strikes me about this cohort is how much hardware ambition is concentrated in one place: propulsion, autonomous servicing, high-cadence Earth observation, satellite avionics built on COTS components.

Every one of those companies will eventually face the same pressure on the production floor: how do you take hardware that works in the lab and manufacture it reliably, at the cadence your customers need, with the audit trail a regulated programme demands? That is entirely a production operations problem.

Europe's future constellations will depend not only on advanced satellites, but on the ability to industrialize production, testing, qualification, and traceability at scale. That is the problem Connektica is built for.

What Connektica does in practice

Before founding Connektica, I designed and deployed two fully automated RF test stations covering over 18,000 space-qualified units at a Canadian satellite prime. I know what it costs when test data lives in separate files on separate benches, when operators are running complex AIT from memory, and when a single compliance deliverable takes days to compile manually.

Connektica replaces that with a single platform: digital work instructions that guide operators through error-proof procedures, automated test sequences connected directly to RF instruments, torque tools, thermal chambers, and telemetry systems via no-code or low-code integration, and end-to-end traceability that generates compliance packages in one click.

The results our customers have measured give a concrete sense of what that shift looks like in production. Anywaves cut antenna testing time by 97% and reduced EIDP generation time by 80%. Atem saved over 2,500 hours per year. An electronics manufacturer running Connektica alongside previous paper-based procedures saw operators work 30% faster from the first week.

What we are aiming for through this programme

Over the next six months, the CASSINI programme will support us on sales development, investor introductions, and matchmaking across the European space and defence ecosystem. Our goals are specific: accelerate our go-to-market across European space manufacturers, expand partnerships with primes and NewSpace players, and strengthen our position as the digital backbone for sovereign satellite constellation programmes ahead of our Series A.

If you are building hardware for space, defense, or regulated electronics and your production floor has not kept up with your engineering ambitions, this is a good moment to have that conversation.

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