Counterspace launches as a new strategic platform for space security
Brussels, Belgium
The transatlantic defence space landscape is undergoing a profound evolution. As space has moved to the centre of allied security planning, it has become inseparable from resilience, readiness, and strategic autonomy. Across Europe, the wider allied community, governments, defence institutions, and industry are advancing programmes that depend on stronger engagement with commercial innovators, more responsive acquisition structures, and greater supply chain depth. Yet much of this activity still develops in parallel rather than in concert, extending delivery timelines, dispersing effort, while reducing the opportunity to build capability with greater coherence and effect.
Belgium stands at the strategic confluence of these developments. As the host of NATO headquarters and the political centre of the European Union, Brussels is uniquely positioned at the intersection of defence planning, institutional coordination, and regulatory direction. It is therefore the natural setting for a platform intended not simply to reflect the evolution of the sector, but to help shape it.
It is in this context that Counterspace is being launched as a Brussels based strategic platform for the space security community. Designed to bring together defence, government, industry, investors, academia, startups, and the wider dual use ecosystem, Counterspace has been established at a moment when cooperation, resilience, and commercially enabled capability are moving decisively to the forefront of allied security thinking.
Beyond the event itself, the platform will support substantive dialogue, post event reporting, and enduring institutional relationships across the defence space ecosystem. Through the publication of the Counterspace Report, the initiative will capture key capability priorities, critical challenges, and practical opportunities emerging from the forum, turning discussion into a structured contribution to the sector.
Duncan McKenzie, Managing Director, said, “Space is no longer peripheral to defence and security planning. It now sits at the centre of how nations think about resilience, readiness, and strategic advantage. Counterspace has been created to provide a purpose-built setting where those shaping this agenda can engage with greater clarity and stronger alignment.”
Ruchi Nema, Production Director, said, “Counterspace is being built as more than an annual convening. It is intended as a long term platform that connects institutional priorities with industrial capability, strengthens dialogue across sectors, and creates value that continues well beyond the event itself.”
The inaugural edition of Counterspace will take place in Brussels on 5 and 6 May 2027. At a time when allied nations are placing greater weight on secure space architectures, trusted industrial partnerships, and operational resilience, Counterspace aims to provide a platform equal to the gravitas of that challenge.
About Counterspace
Counterspace convenes the space security community in Brussels, bringing together defence, government, industry, and the wider dual use ecosystem. Through high level dialogue and cross sector engagement, it is intended to strengthen cooperation and support a more resilient, connected, and strategically aligned defence space ecosystem.