Mission and ambition.
Our mission
As an industrial partner, we concept, initiate and guide shared space and stratospheric infrastructure across Africa. Acting as lead partner, we help structure viable Build-Operate-Transfer models and empower emerging space nations through turnkey end-to-end services. The goal is a sovereign space programme, from the first feasibility study to the use of satellite data on Earth.
Our vision
African space capability that the world can rely on. Africa as a supplier to the global space economy, not only a customer of it.
Our ambition
We are the technological architect and the financial bridge for the next generation of space nations. By combining German engineering heritage and robust project governance with the potential of Africa, we make access to space democratic, secure and commercially viable.
Architect along the whole value chain.
Project initiation and technical leadership
Structuring and technological leadership of SPVs designed to be bankable, for AIT facilities, ground segments and launch infrastructure.
Sovereign space consulting
Holistic guidance for governments and institutions without prior aerospace expertise, across upstream, midstream and downstream, on a turnkey basis.
Capacity building and technology transfer
Targeted training of local workforces for a lasting build-up of domestic expertise, so partner nations become fully autonomous operators.
How we work.
Listen first
We start from your priorities. Decisions stay with you.
Engineer with rigor
Standards before claims. We test what we promise.
Build together
Shared risk, shared credit. Partnership, not aid.
Build to last
Skills and institutions that outlive any one project.
Aerospace leadership and certification in one team.
Dr. Armel Djeukou
Co-Founder and CEO
Leads programmes, systems engineering, partnerships
- 20+ years in aerospace leadership. Former SVP at Airbus with multi-billion P&L responsibility, including Group Digital Transformation.
- Led the Airbus drone (UAS) business unit, including the Zephyr high-altitude platform, and Premium Aerotec central operations.
- Board and chair roles across Airbus entities. Member, Innovation Leadership Council, The Conference Board.
- PhD, TU Hamburg. Master’s, RWTH Aachen. MIT and HBS executive programmes.
- Raised in Cameroon, based in Germany.
Dr. Randolph Odi
Co-Founder and CTO
Leads qualification, structures engineering, certification
- 25+ years in aerospace engineering and leadership. Head of a certified aircraft design organisation (EASA Part 21J). Former VP Aircraft Engineering at SR Technics.
- Space heritage: RUAG Space (LISA Pathfinder, BepiColombo mechanisms), Ariane 5 testing, A400M and A380 structures at Airbus.
- PhD Materials Engineering, Cranfield. Global EMBA, IESE. Structures Technical Committee, EUCASS. Board, Swiss Association of Aeronautical Sciences.
- Raised in Côte d’Ivoire, based in Switzerland.
Engineered with partners.
Reference standards
ECSS for space engineering and quality, ISO 9100 for aerospace quality systems, ISO/IEC 17025 for test laboratories.
Partner ecosystem
European test and facility industry, satellite platform providers, African agencies and universities, development finance and EU programmes. Names are shared case by case.
nuantu space GmbH · Tal 44, 80331 München, Germany · HRB 315072
Let’s build this together.
If you are building, funding or regulating space capability in Africa, we would like to talk.